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Google Business Reviews

Reviews on your Google Business Profile locations flow into Intercom as conversations with the star rating preserved as a tag. No webhooks here either, so we poll the Business Profile API on schedule.

ChannelPolledEvery 30 minutes

Overview

Reviews left on your Google Business Profile locations flow into Intercom as conversations, with the star rating preserved as a tag and a custom attribute. Google does not expose review webhooks, so we poll the Business Profile API on a schedule.

No real-time relay: new reviews arrive in Intercom within 30 minutes of being posted. Google does not offer webhooks for Business Profile reviews, so polling is the only option available from the platform side.

Authentication

Sign in with the Google account that manages your Business Profile using OAuth 2.0, then choose which locations to connect. One Google login can own several Business Profile accounts, such as a personal account plus any location groups shared with it, and we list the locations across all of them.

Inbound events

EventDirection
New reviewInbound (polled)
Review editInbound (polled)

Tagged with the star rating, for example 5 star review, and the score is written to the conversation as a Stars attribute. A rating with no written text still relays, with the score as the message body.

Edits stay in one place: when a reviewer changes their review, the update lands on the conversation the original opened, with the revised rating and tag and a note telling the agent it is a revision.

Per-star relay rules let you choose which ratings reach Intercom, so you can route only the reviews that need a reply. Reviewers who chose to stay anonymous on Google appear as Anonymous User.

Outbound actions

ActionTriggerDirection
Reply to reviewReply in Intercom on a review conversationOutbound
Delete replyRedact the relayed reply in IntercomOutbound
One reply per review: Google allows a single owner reply per review, up to 4,096 characters. Subsequent replies replace the existing one, and the agent is told which happened.

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