Helpdesk migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Heyday AI and Intercom. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Intercom.
Heyday AI
Source
Intercom
Destination
Compatibility
6 of 10
objects map 1:1 between Heyday AI and Intercom.
Complexity
CModerate
Timeline
1-2 weeks
Overview
Moving from Heyday AI to Intercom means trading a retail-focused chatbot bundled inside Hootsuite for a standalone conversational support platform with a published API, Fin AI Agent for autonomous resolution, and seat-based pricing that is transparent on Intercom's website. Heyday AI does not publish a standalone public API, which is the central constraint on this migration: conversation history, automation rules, and bot training data cannot be pulled via standard API calls. We work with Hootsuite's backend or the customer's Heyday admin UI to extract whatever is exportable, map customer profiles to Intercom Contacts, and document all observed automation logic as written specifications for the customer's team to rebuild in Intercom. Workflows, FAQ automation flows, and routing rules do not migrate as code; we deliver a complete rebuild inventory instead. Intercom's Custom Objects migrate as data records but are scoped to bot-flow use cases rather than general reporting queries.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
Why teams make this switch
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Object mapping
Each row shows how a Heyday AI object lands in Intercom, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Heyday AI
Customer
Intercom
Contact
1:1Heyday customer profiles, which are synced from connected e-commerce platforms, map to Intercom Contacts. We extract customer records via Heyday's admin export or Hootsuite's backend where API access is available, then map each profile to the Intercom Contact schema using email as the dedupe key. Custom customer properties built inside Heyday that do not map to standard Intercom Contact attributes migrate as custom attributes. During import, phone number validation in Intercom should be disabled in workspace settings (Settings > Your Workspace > People Data > Phone) if any source records contain non-standard formats.
Heyday AI
Conversation
Intercom
Conversation
1:1Heyday conversation threads and message history map to Intercom Conversations, but this is the highest-risk object in this migration. Heyday does not publish a standalone public API for conversation export. We coordinate with Hootsuite's backend team or use the customer's Heyday admin UI to extract whatever message history is available manually, then structure it as conversation records in Intercom. If Hootsuite support is unwilling or unable to assist, we flag this as a data-loss risk and migrate only the most recent N months of accessible conversations. The customer should request a data export from Hootsuite before migration scoping begins.
Heyday AI
Product
Intercom
Custom Object (Product)
1:1Heyday product catalogue data pulled from e-commerce integrations maps to an Intercom Custom Object named Product. Heyday stores product references rather than the product data itself, so the primary migration goal is preserving product IDs, names, SKUs, and prices in a form that Intercom's Custom Actions can retrieve at conversation time. Note that Intercom Custom Objects are primarily accessible within bot flows, not visible in standard filters, reports, or the Inbox view without a bot or custom action referencing them.
Heyday AI
Order
Intercom
Custom Object (Order)
1:1Heyday order-tracking queries rely on e-commerce platform integrations rather than holding order data natively. We migrate order references and identifiers as an Intercom Custom Object named Order, with a lookup relationship to the related Contact. This allows Intercom's Fin AI Agent to surface order context during conversations when configured with a Custom Action that fetches order status from the customer's e-commerce platform API. The order data itself stays in the e-commerce system; we map the reference and link.
Heyday AI
Agent Profile
Intercom
Admin / Agent
1:1Heyday human agent accounts and assignment rules can be listed via Hootsuite admin APIs where accessible. We map agent identities to Intercom Admins and Agents, resolving by email match. Intercom assigns roles (admin, agent, teammate) during provisioning. Any Heyday agent without a matching Intercom user goes to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before conversation assignment migration begins.
Heyday AI
Tag / Label
Intercom
Tag
lossyConversation tagging schemas used in Heyday map to Intercom Tags. Tag names and hierarchies vary by Heyday implementation, so we extract the full tagging convention during discovery, map each tag to an equivalent Intercom Tag, and flag any tags that represent routing or SLA priority (which map to Intercom's Team or Inbox assignment rather than a Tag). Tags used for conversation classification in Heyday should be reviewed against Intercom's conversation states and routing rules post-migration.
Heyday AI
Integration Connector
Intercom
Integration / Custom Action
lossyHeyday connects to 20+ e-commerce and social messaging apps via its integration layer. During migration we identify which integrations are active and document their equivalents in Intercom. E-commerce connectors map to Intercom Custom Actions that call the platform API directly. Social messaging channels (WhatsApp, Instagram Direct, Facebook Messenger) map to Intercom's native channel integrations, which require reconfiguration rather than data migration.
Heyday AI
FAQ Automation Rule
Intercom
Help Center Article
lossyHeyday FAQ automation flows and keyword triggers are configured inside Heyday's conversational flow builder and are not exposed via a public API. We document every observed automation rule, keyword trigger, and routing condition during the discovery phase as a written specification. These specifications are handed off as input to the customer's team for rebuilding in Intercom's Fin AI Agent knowledge base and workflow rules. The Heyday FAQ content itself (the answers the bot surfaced) should be extracted as text and imported as Intercom Help Center articles.
Heyday AI
Bot Training Data
Intercom
Fin AI Agent Knowledge Base
lossyHeyday bot training data and intent configurations cannot be exported programmatically. We extract any bot response templates, FAQ answer text, and knowledge-base content visible in the Heyday admin UI and structure it as Intercom Help Center articles and Fin AI Agent resources. The customer reviews and curates this content for accuracy before publishing, since the content may reference Heyday-specific terminology or Hootsuite-specific branding that requires updating for Intercom.
Heyday AI
Conversation Summary Metadata
Intercom
Conversation Part (internal note)
1:1Heyday conversation summary fields such as resolution status, conversation duration, agent assignment history, and customer satisfaction ratings migrate as Intercom Conversation Part records of type 'note' attached to the relevant Conversation. Intercom's standard conversation data model preserves these attributes natively, but any custom metadata from Heyday (such as order reference or shipping status flags) requires custom conversation attributes that we create during schema setup.
| Heyday AI | Intercom | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer | Contact1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Conversation | Conversation1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Product | Custom Object (Product)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Order | Custom Object (Order)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Agent Profile | Admin / Agent1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Tag / Label | Taglossy | Fully supported | |
| Integration Connector | Integration / Custom Actionlossy | Fully supported | |
| FAQ Automation Rule | Help Center Articlelossy | Fully supported | |
| Bot Training Data | Fin AI Agent Knowledge Baselossy | Fully supported | |
| Conversation Summary Metadata | Conversation Part (internal note)1:1 | Fully supported |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
Heyday AI gotchas
No documented public API for data export
Pricing requires sales consultation
Automation rules and bot logic do not export
Limited public documentation on schema
Intercom gotchas
S3 JSON export omits conversation transcripts
Workspace isolation prevents workflow migration
Fin AI resolution fees compound with automation success
Two-year conversation history limit on historical export
Private app rate limits share workspace quota
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Data extraction request and discovery
We begin by submitting a formal data export request to Hootsuite on the customer's behalf, requesting conversation history, customer profiles, bot response templates, automation rule specifications, and integration connector configurations in whatever format Hootsuite's backend can produce. In parallel, we audit the customer's Heyday admin UI for any manually exportable data (CSV contacts, conversation exports, tag schemas, integration list). We produce a written data availability report that distinguishes what is accessible, what requires Hootsuite cooperation, and what cannot be exported. This report sets the scope for the migration and the data-loss disclosure the customer signs off on before migration begins.
Intercom workspace schema design
We configure the destination Intercom workspace during a parallel workstream. This includes provisioning Admins and Agents (matched to Heyday agent profiles by email), creating Custom Objects for Product and Order with appropriate fields and relationships to Contacts, setting up channel integrations for the social and messaging platforms the customer uses, creating the Fin AI Agent with initial knowledge-base import from any extracted bot response content, and designing conversation Tags mapped from Heyday's tagging convention. We disable phone number validation in workspace settings as a pre-import step. The workspace is set up in the customer's Intercom trial or production environment based on the agreed migration approach.
Test migration and reconciliation
We run a test migration of contact records into a staging environment using a subset of the extracted data (typically 50-100 records handpicked by the customer). The customer reviews the imported Contacts in Intercom, validates field mapping accuracy, checks tag application, and confirms Custom Object linkage. Any field mapping corrections, missed custom attributes, or dedupe issues are resolved before the production migration. This step validates the extraction-transform process without touching live data and prevents correction loops in production.
Contact import with dedupe
We import the full contact set into Intercom using email as the primary dedupe key. Phone numbers are validated against whatever format rules are active in the workspace, with the pre-agreed phone validation setting applied. Each Contact record is tagged using the mapping derived from Heyday's tagging schema. Agents without matching Intercom users are held in a reconciliation queue; the customer's admin provisions missing Intercom users before assignment migration begins. We produce a row-count reconciliation report comparing extracted Contact count against imported Contact count and investigating any gap.
Conversation import and Fin AI knowledge-base handoff
We migrate whatever conversation history is accessible from Heyday (dependent on Hootsuite's export response) into Intercom Conversations, linking each conversation to the matching Contact by email. For conversations where the Contact record does not yet exist, we create placeholder contacts or link to anonymous conversation records. We deliver the bot response templates and FAQ content as a structured document for import into the Intercom Help Center, along with the Fin AI Agent configuration guide that maps each Heyday FAQ flow to an equivalent Fin AI knowledge-base article and escalation rule. This is a written handoff, not an automated import.
Cutover, delta sync, and automation rebuild handoff
We freeze Heyday writes during a defined cutover window, run a final delta migration of any records created or modified since the main import, then enable Intercom as the system of record for inbound conversations. We deliver the automation rebuild inventory: a structured document listing every observed Heyday automation rule, keyword trigger, routing condition, and escalation path with its recommended Intercom Fin AI Agent or workflow equivalent. We do not rebuild workflows inside Intercom as part of this migration scope; the customer's admin or an Intercom partner rebuilds them post-go-live. We offer a one-week hypercare window to resolve any reconciliation issues raised during the first week of live operation.
Platform deep dives
Heyday AI
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Intercom
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Moderate Helpdesk migration. 1 of 7 objects need a manual workaround.
Overall complexity
Moderate migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Heyday AI and Intercom.
Object compatibility
1 of 7 objects need a manual workaround.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
7-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
Heyday AI: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Heyday AI doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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