Monthly improvements and updates roundup
Help Scout announces a new monthly roundup format to highlight ongoing improvements and updates that enhance the product and reduce friction for teams.
Welcome to our first monthly roundup. Every month, we’ll highlight the improvements and steady updates that make Help Scout even better to use.
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🛠️ Improvements for your teamUpdates that reduce friction and help your team do their best work.
Copy thread URL
Need to bring someone into a conversation? Grab a direct link to any thread and share it instantly.
New permission for auto replies
Let teammates update your autoreply without granting full admin access.
Improvements to processing time for Workflows
Workflows just got way faster. Workflows that sometimes took 3 or more days to process now take just 5 minutes.
Import emails from Outlook
Skip the copy-and-paste slog. Bring your Outlook history into Help Scout in a few clicks, keeping all past conversations in one place.
Sort companies by Last Seen
Quickly spot your most recently active accounts with a new “Last Seen” sorting option.
Mobile: Adding notes just got smoother
Your conversation list now refreshes right after you add a note, so you’re always up to date.
Conversation dock is now available on iPad
Use the conversation dock to easily juggle conversations across devices.
A new way to fine-tune your Views
Create more focused Views by filtering out entire customer domains — not just individual addresses.
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🛠️ Improvements for developersEnhancements that make building on Help Scout more powerful and reliable.
API support for company management
You can now manage organizations at scale with new endpoints for listing, creating, updating, and retrieving organizations. Take a look at the full set of endpoints.
New organization webhooks
Stay up to date with webhooks that instantly notify you when an organization is created or updated.
Webhooks for AI Answers
Get real-time visibility into AI Answers with new webhooks that track responses, so you can measure impact or trigger custom workflows.
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🐛 Bug fixesThanks to your feedback, we squashed a handful of pesky bugs.
Generated PDF invoices render correctly again
Folder counts display the right totals
The “number” filter in search now works as expected
On mobile, tables render properly inside messages
Thanks for catching up with us. These focused updates add up, and we’ve already got more in the works for next month.
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Conversation Sidebar Redesign for Better Customer Context
The Conversation Sidebar was redesigned to make customer context easier to access. Conversation details like status, assignee, SLA, Topics, and Sentiment are now displayed alongside customer information for quick reference.
Bring Company-Wide Support Into View
Help Scout now provides a unified view of all support conversations from a single company across multiple contacts, so teams can see the complete picture of issues including billing questions from Finance and product issues from other departments.
Support customers over text with Twilio SMS
Help Scout now integrates with Twilio to enable two-way SMS conversations. Users can connect their Twilio number and manage SMS exchanges directly from the shared inbox alongside email, chat, and social channels.