Intercom administration interface has a steep learning curve
Intercom's administration interface is difficult to learn, creating friction for new admins setting up and managing the platform.
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A support team finds Intercom's admin interface so feature-rich that meaningful training time is needed to use it effectively, and its analytics reports are somewhat inflexible for tracking metrics specific to their services.
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