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Post a message in Slack when a new contact is added in Intercom

When a new contact is added in Intercom, post a message in Slack.

Start the 14-day trial, then find it under Templates → Library. It installs into the client you choose, switched off, with its checklist.

Steps
1
Client fills in
1
Accounts
2
Starts
A new contact is added in Intercom, within 5 minutes

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Every step, in order

When it happens in the first app, the step runs in the second, with the client’s own account.

A new contact is added
A lead or user created in Intercom (a chat, a form, an import), checked every 5 minutes.
Post a message
Post to a channel the app has been invited to.
  1. Starts whenA new contact is added
  2. App stepPost a message

What each client fills in

Slack: Channel
For example #leads or C0123456789

The accounts it needs

Each is the client’s own, stored encrypted and never copied between clients. Until one is added the client’s checklist shows it, and nothing runs.

  • In the client’s Intercom: Settings → Integrations → Developer Hub → New app (for their own workspace, no review) → Authentication → copy the access token. The conversation trigger needs the app to be allowed to read conversations.

  • In the client’s Slack: api.slack.com/apps → Create New App → OAuth & Permissions → add the chat:write scope (and channels:history, plus groups:history for a private channel, for the message trigger) → Install to Workspace → copy the Bot User OAuth Token. Invite the app to the channel.

After you install it

It lands switched off. The client’s checklist holds exactly this:

  1. Connect the client’s Intercom, for “A new contact is added”
  2. Connect the client’s Slack, for “Post a message”
  3. Fill in Slack: Channel (For example #leads or C0123456789)

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