# About the Intercom category

**URL:** <https://community.octopods.io/t/about-the-intercom-category/7>\
**Category:** Intercom\
**Created:** [October 14, 2026, 8:57am UTC](https://community.octopods.io/t/about-the-intercom-category/7 "2026-10-14T08:57:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 8:57am UTC](https://community.octopods.io/t/about-the-intercom-category/7/1 "2026-10-14T08:57:55Z")

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Questions and answers about connecting WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram and other messaging channels to Intercom, and running Fin over them.

### What belongs here

- **Connecting a channel to Intercom:** WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Messenger, SMS, LINE, WeChat, Viber and others, whether through Intercom’s own features, an app from the Intercom App Store, or something you built yourself.
- **How channel conversations behave in the Inbox:** assignment, routing, tags, SLAs and reporting.
- **Fin and workflows on messaging channels:** what Fin can answer there, when it hands over to a person, and what the customer sees.
- **Starting conversations:** messaging a customer first on WhatsApp, templates, and the 24-hour customer service window.
- **Contacts:** matching a phone number or channel ID to the right user or lead, and avoiding duplicates.

### Questions that get good answers

A specific question that includes your setup gets a far better answer than a general one. These are the kinds of questions this category is for:

- _Can I keep my existing WhatsApp number when I connect it to Intercom?_
- _Fin answers on web chat but not on WhatsApp. What should I check?_
- _Can a personal Telegram account, not a bot, send and receive messages through Intercom?_
- _Every Instagram conversation creates a new lead. How do I match them to existing users?_

When you post, fill in the short template: your Intercom plan, the channel and provider, and what you’ve already tried. Add the channel tag so people who know that channel can find your question.

### Better asked elsewhere

- **Your own Octopods account, billing or data:** contact [Octopods support](https://www.octopods.io/contact) so we can look at your setup privately.
- **Channel questions that don’t depend on Intercom,** such as moving a WhatsApp number between providers: post in #Cross-platform.
- **Intercom questions with no channel angle,** such as Help Center, Series or billing: the [Intercom Community](https://community.intercom.com) is the better place.

### Field Answers for Intercom

The Octopods team publishes Field Answers here for the questions we’re asked most often, each with its author and the date it was last checked. [Browse Intercom Field Answers](https://community.octopods.io/tags/c/intercom/5/field-answer).