Delighted + Intercom
Connect Delighted and Intercom to Turn Customer Feedback into Action
Automate the flow of NPS and CSAT survey data from Delighted into Intercom to personalize support, close the feedback loop, and retain more customers.
Why integrate Delighted and Intercom?
Delighted is the go-to platform for collecting real-time NPS, CSAT, and CES feedback, while Intercom powers the conversations that keep customers engaged. Together, they make a solid feedback-driven support setup — routing survey responses into customer profiles, triggering proactive outreach, and helping teams act on sentiment before it turns into churn. Without the integration, support agents are stuck cross-referencing survey results with open conversations by hand. With it, they get full context on how a customer feels right inside Intercom.
Automate & integrate Delighted & Intercom
Use case
Auto-Tag Intercom Users Based on NPS Score
Every time a customer submits an NPS survey in Delighted, tray.ai automatically updates their Intercom profile with the score and sentiment label — Promoter, Passive, or Detractor. Support and success teams can see exactly how a customer feels before the conversation even starts. No more switching between tools to piece it together.
Use case
Trigger Proactive Intercom Messages for Detractors
When a customer submits a low NPS or CSAT score in Delighted, tray.ai can automatically trigger a personalized Intercom message or open a new conversation to follow up. This closes the feedback loop quickly and shows unhappy customers that their voice was heard. Fast, empathetic outreach right after a bad experience does a lot to reduce churn risk.
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Invite Promoters to Review or Refer via Intercom
When a customer scores 9 or 10 on a Delighted NPS survey, tray.ai can automatically send them a targeted Intercom message inviting them to leave a review, join a referral program, or participate in a case study. Catching them at peak satisfaction dramatically improves conversion rates for advocacy programs. Your happiest customers become active growth drivers without anyone on your team having to lift a finger.
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Create Intercom Conversations from Delighted Open-Ended Feedback
When a customer includes qualitative comments in their Delighted survey response, tray.ai can automatically create a new Intercom conversation or conversation note with that verbatim feedback attached. Product, support, and success teams can then act on specific concerns or praise without losing the context. Open-ended feedback is often where the most actionable stuff lives, and surfacing it directly in Intercom keeps it from getting buried.
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Segment Intercom Campaigns by CSAT Score
After post-interaction CSAT surveys are collected in Delighted, tray.ai updates Intercom user attributes to reflect satisfaction levels, so you can build more precise audience segments for outreach campaigns. You might offer a discount to customers who had a rough support experience, or highlight a new feature to those who loved their interaction. Transactional feedback data becomes a smarter retention tool.
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Sync Delighted Survey Responses as Intercom User Events
Log every Delighted survey submission as a custom event on the corresponding Intercom user record, including the score, survey type, and response date. Those events can then trigger Intercom automations, update conversation routing rules, or inform behavioral messaging sequences. Treating survey responses as user events opens up a lot more of what Intercom's automation engine can do.
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Alert Customer Success Teams in Intercom When At-Risk Accounts Respond
When a high-value account submits a low satisfaction score in Delighted, tray.ai can automatically notify the assigned customer success manager via an Intercom note or internal message. No at-risk account slips through the cracks. For B2B teams managing enterprise customers, where a single churned account can hurt badly, timely internal alerts mean faster intervention and better outcomes.
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Delighted & Intercom Challenges
What challenges are there when working with Delighted & Intercom and how will using Tray.ai help?
Challenge
Matching Delighted Respondents to Intercom Contacts Reliably
Delighted collects survey responses by email, but Intercom contacts may use different primary identifiers, or may not exist at all for a given respondent. Without a reliable matching layer, automation can fail silently or update the wrong contact, which quietly corrupts your data.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai's workflow logic lets you look up an Intercom contact by the respondent's email, handle cases where no match is found by either creating a new contact or skipping the step, and log unmatched responses for manual review. Every response gets processed accurately, even the edge cases.
Challenge
Handling Survey Responses for Users Who Have Been Deleted or Churned
Customers sometimes submit Delighted surveys after their Intercom record has been deleted or anonymized. That can cause integration errors or create duplicate ghost contacts you didn't want.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai lets you build conditional logic that checks whether an Intercom contact exists and is active before attempting any update or message. If the contact isn't found, the workflow routes to an alternate path — logging the response to a spreadsheet or Slack, for example — instead of failing or creating unwanted records.
Challenge
Avoiding Duplicate Follow-Up Messages for the Same Response
If a Delighted webhook fires more than once or a workflow gets re-triggered, customers could receive duplicate outreach messages in Intercom. That's an awkward experience and it erodes trust fast.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai supports deduplication logic using unique response IDs from Delighted. Workflows can check whether a given response ID has already been processed — using a data store or a lookup against previously created Intercom events — before sending anything, so every customer gets exactly one follow-up.
Challenge
Mapping Multiple Survey Types to the Right Intercom Attributes
Delighted supports NPS, CSAT, CES, and 5-Star surveys, each with its own scoring scale. Pushing all of them into a single Intercom attribute field without proper logic produces confusing, often misleading contact data.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai's workflow builder lets you use branching logic to detect the survey type from the Delighted response payload and route each type to its own Intercom attribute — NPS scores to 'nps_score', CSAT scores to 'csat_score', and so on. The data stays clean and actually means something when you go to build segments.
Challenge
Rate Limiting and API Quotas During High-Volume Survey Periods
After a major product launch or a surge in support volume, Delighted can receive hundreds or thousands of responses in a short window. Pushing all of them to Intercom at once risks hitting API rate limits and causing workflow failures or delayed updates.
How Tray.ai Can Help:
tray.ai handles rate limiting with retry logic, configurable delays between API calls, and queue-based processing that spreads requests out over time. Even during peak feedback periods, every response gets synced to Intercom reliably, with no manual cleanup and no dropped records.
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Delighted & Intercom Templates
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Template
Sync Delighted NPS Responses to Intercom User Attributes
Automatically updates an Intercom contact's custom attributes with their latest Delighted NPS score, sentiment category, and response date whenever a new survey response comes in. Keeps Intercom profiles current with real-time satisfaction data.
Steps:
- Trigger: New survey response received in Delighted
- Lookup the matching Intercom contact by email address
- Update Intercom contact attributes with NPS score, sentiment label, and response timestamp
Connectors Used: Delighted, Intercom
Template
Open Intercom Conversation for Every Detractor Response
Watches for new Delighted responses with a score of 6 or below and automatically opens a new Intercom conversation or sends a direct message to the customer with a personalized follow-up from the support team.
Steps:
- Trigger: New Delighted response with NPS score 0–6 detected
- Retrieve customer details and open-ended comment from Delighted response
- Create a new Intercom conversation addressed to the customer, including their feedback as context for the agent
Connectors Used: Delighted, Intercom
Template
Send Promoter Advocacy Message via Intercom
Automatically sends a targeted Intercom in-app or email message to customers who score 9 or 10 in Delighted, inviting them to leave a review or join a referral program while their satisfaction is at its peak.
Steps:
- Trigger: New Delighted NPS response with score 9 or 10
- Look up the corresponding Intercom contact to confirm they are active
- Send a pre-defined Intercom outbound message with a review or referral call-to-action
Connectors Used: Delighted, Intercom
Template
Log Delighted Responses as Custom Events in Intercom
Records every Delighted survey submission as a custom event on the matching Intercom user record, enabling event-based automations, behavioral segmentation, and a longitudinal view of customer satisfaction within Intercom.
Steps:
- Trigger: Any new response submitted in Delighted
- Map survey type, score, and response date to custom event properties
- Submit the custom event to the matched Intercom contact via the Intercom API
Connectors Used: Delighted, Intercom
Template
Notify Customer Success via Intercom When Enterprise Account Submits Low Score
Monitors Delighted for low-score responses from contacts tagged as enterprise or high-value accounts, then sends an internal Intercom note to the assigned customer success manager so they can take immediate action.
Steps:
- Trigger: New Delighted response with score below threshold from an enterprise-tagged contact
- Identify the assigned CSM by looking up the Intercom contact's owner attribute
- Post an internal Intercom note to the CSM with the customer's name, score, and verbatim feedback
Connectors Used: Delighted, Intercom
Template
Weekly Delighted Score Summary Added as Intercom Company Note
Aggregates all Delighted survey responses from the past seven days for a given company domain and posts a weekly NPS summary note to the corresponding Intercom company record, keeping account health visible across the team.
Steps:
- Schedule: Run every Monday morning
- Query Delighted API for all responses from the past 7 days grouped by email domain
- Post a formatted summary note to the matching Intercom company record with average score, response count, and sentiment breakdown
Connectors Used: Delighted, Intercom