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A growing archive of questions worked through in the community office hours — and beyond. Practical and sourced: exploring what may have changed, where to look, and how to confirm it in your own org.

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Fin ↔ Salesforce 2026-07-06 · Fin Community Office Hours

Did something change around June 7 that could affect Messenger → Salesforce case creation?

Messenger chats appear to have stopped creating SF cases around June 7 while email escalations kept working. One lead worth exploring: June 7 coincides with the Salesforce Summer ’26 release weekend. Candidate causes, a key diagnostic question, and a checklist to help the admins investigate.

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Bring your Fin question to the next Office Hours.

These write-ups grow out of live sessions where support & CX teams bring their real Fin, Intercom, integration & optimization problems and we work through them together. Come with a question — leave with a plan.

Thank you for all of the office hours! I have learned a ton of skills that we have been able to implement in our workspace.
TM Tyler MacDonald
Director, Technical Support & Customer Experience · Versapay
Just wanted to say thank you to you all as I have now built my own procedure and data connector for repair updates, something I would not have been able to do or even had the confidence to give a try without everyone’s advice here!
EM Edward Morrell
Pure Electric
Nathan Sudds
Nathan Sudds
Host · Fin Community Office Hours
Fin Community Expert ↗ Intercom & Fin consultant Founder, Activelabs

Host of the Fin Community Office Hours and founder of Activelabs. Nathan helps support & CX teams get more out of Intercom and Fin — integrations, optimization, procedures, and Guidance — and turns fixes into systems teams can maintain.

What this is. Hosted by Nathan Sudds — Fin Community Expert and host of the Fin Community Office Hours. Activelabs works hands-on with Intercom Fin, procedures, Guidance, data connectors, and the integrations and optimization teams build around Fin. When a good question comes up in office hours, the worked answer lands here so the whole community can use it.