monday.com Reviews

We use the solution for managing internal resources and client needs publicly. For example, client inductions with a marketing agency are fairly similar, therefore templating the process allows efficiencies in time and ensures everything is 'on brand' and everything is done the way we choose. 

Allowing clients to see exactly where all of their projects are and what reliances are on them saves difficult conversations that may occur later, particularly around timeframes and deadlines. 

Internally, everyone works differently, therefore having a fixed record that everyone defaults to helps amalgamate different working styles. 

The solution has improved our organization in terms of efficiencies in communication, project management, and openness and transparency (both internally and externally) as to the progress of items, while also assisting with recognizing bottlenecks and operational issues that stall progress.

Historically, weekly status reports/client contact reports were the norm, taking account managers/directors out of action to update their clients. However, with Monday, this is updated as they would update a to-do list, therefore removing duplicate effort (or as much as feasibly possible).

The Gantt chart with dependencies allows for all timescales to move when one changes, holding everyone accountable. 

File upload and communication save hunting for messages or files across devices and shared areas.

The Gantt chart function saves spending time creating a visual that is static. Within Monday a simple update on tasks moves the Gantt chart without removing the history - therefore the archive trail allows us to have a nice record. 

File upload and communication just keep everything concise, neat, and organized. Many firms use Google Drive, Slack, email etc. With so many places to find files, it all gets very messy very quickly. 

It is a touch expensive, especially when just starting out. Perhaps a simple per-user scaling that starts small would attract smaller Monday.com clients who are potentially priced out. 

A new feature would be more sophisticated calendar integration, perhaps deadline reminders. Sometimes, we don't want to have prescriptive minute-by-minute 'calendarization' of tasks, however, a simple list of deadlines for the day/week (similar to 'Your Work') would allow an easy and simple checkpoint for all members of the team.

I've used the solution for around six years.

It's only been 'Down' once in the six years that I've noticed.

The solution is very, very scalable, however, it would require investment (time) from the outset to agree to parameters and process. 

We tried Trello, however, it isn't the same. 

We handled the setup in-house.

ROI we are unable to calculate, however, it is certainly positive. 

Licensing is a tad expensive. That said, it depends how you value your own time and profitability gains from efficiency.

We had a quick look at Asana, however, Monday.com is superior by far.

We use the product for recording and keeping track of all sales and transactions going on in our company. This includes sales, returns, descriptions and order numbers. 

It provides our company with a customizable web and mobile work management platform, designed to help teams and organizations with operational efficiency by tracking projects. 

We use the platform on a daily basis since all our tracking, status updates, and descriptions are all logged in real-time. Also, the updates are all real-time as well which makes it an important tool in our daily cycle

In terms of being more organized, Monday has greatly improved overall productivity in the workplace. All the data and information is stored in one place. It is extremely easy to use and does all the project planning and management work for you. 

It can also integrate with quite a few systems to automate processes like creating an inventory, sales, and customer report database which makes it easy to track all updates on one platform. Our whole team uses this platform daily and so far it has been a big help. 

The sales sheet where we keep track of all transactions including transaction history, customers, and all necessary records is great. Every team member has access which makes it easy to tag which customer belongs to who. As for interacting with the project and its tasks, it's very easy. We can set status, assignee, dates, add items, etc. Notifications are a great tool to stay on top of things, especially with customer updates which are critical. You can see all your tasks without scrolling through long items in a project.

Adding more features would be ideal since there are limitations as far as scalability. For example, we'd like a field for adding attachments, especially since, for recording purposes, customers submit documents. It would also be nice if there are training or quick access tools for new features since there are actually a lot of decent unexplored services that we may have not been using. They might actually be helpful in our day-to-day operations if we were aware of them. We continue to use the platform since all our data is stored in one location and the whole team relies on it.  

I've been using the solution for a little over a year.

The solution is very stable and reliable.

I would rate scalability a seven out of ten.

We have not reached out to customer support yet.

Positive

We previously used Google Sheets.

The initial setup was easy.

We did have assistance. I'd rate the process a seven out of ten.

The ROI is still the same.

It is a very cost-effective solution.

We did not evaluate other options so far.

We use Monday primarily as a task/project manager. Some boards are simple "to-do" punch lists. Some boards are for full-team collaborations on product and packaging design. Within our Monday account, a product is researched, pitched, briefed, concepted, reviewed, revised, submitted for a quote, sent to mass production, checked for quality control, launched, marketed, and supported into its future. We maintain due dates, assign responsibilities within larger tasks, critique and punch up creative material, record budgets, and utilize automation to move tasks between teams and internal processes.

We moved from Asana to Monday in 2018. We needed a task management solution that would fit the varied internal processes of our business. Some teams and tasks are pure creative, some pure logistics. Everyone has different KPIs that matter to them.

Monday allowed us to customize a unique board full of targeted information for each team and process while keeping all team members on the same shared platform. We value teams across functions being able to stay attuned to each other's work. It creates accountability and reduces siloing.

Big Picture: Being able to add and subtract columns from a board. We see only what we want to see, and it's there, top-level, at a glance. Being able to see the physical status of a single team without having to drill down to the task level is very valuable.

Small Picture: The status boxes are super impactful. The changing colors are visually distinct and powerful, but the wild amount of customization they offer for different contexts, and even being able to comment directly on a changed status adds a ton of clarity to a team's progress (or lack thereof).

I wish the Time Tracking features were a little more robust. We are interested in replacing Toggl with Monday's in-built time tracking features so that we can consolidate more of our internal software into Monday, but the time tracking features aren't quite there yet.

For example, if a task is assigned to multiple people, and User One tracks two hours while User Two tracks three hours, Monday's reporting through their dashboard will show that both users tracked five hours, and it looks like ten hours were spent in total. Since so many of our processes are in collaboration, this feature as it stands is pretty useless to us and forces us to use an external piece of software to handle it (and we don't particularly like Toggl's reporting).

I've used the solution for just over four years.

The stability is dependable. Over the course of four years, Monday has been down in a way that affected our workflow fewer times than I can count on both my hands.

We went from small to mid-size while using Monday. It has plenty of features that would allow it to scale with us further, including important permissions and visibility features. We also have dedicated ways to section off content, reorganize by importance, and place boards into folders.

Technical support is speedy and professional. Thorough. Responsive. We haven't had an issue go unresolved. In the earlier days of the service, some of our limitations were eventually remedied with feature updates.

Positive

We previously used Asana. At the time we were simply pricing out alternatives, as our team had grown into a new pricing bracket with Asana, Monday was priced competitively for our size. We were given a two-week test drive of Monday and then understood that it wasn't simply a cheaper option. It was a more flexible option for our business.

The initial setup was complex. We needed a champion to get set up and moved over from Asana and understand any new limitations. It was not something we could just toss to any/every employee and expect success. However, the documentation and help files are very clear and kept up to date. It's easy to pick up and learn.

We implemented through an in-house team.

Monday is a big part of our entire product lifecycle, and we're launching hundreds of products a year. The price tag starts to look pretty miniscule.

To a complete novice, Monday 'feels' a little more complex than competitors and 'feels' a little overwhelming. You'll need a champion or two in your workplace to learn the ins and outs and set up boards to a baseline configuration. That said, once folks are comfortable and customizing it to their needs, it really starts to sing.

We evaluated a few other services of varying levels of complexity, Basecamp and Trello amongst them. Some raw time-tracking and to-do list software that would've required additional administration, some fuller-service options.

I am currently a recruiter at my job. I use the solution to keep track of everyone that is currently in the hiring process. I must say, It's so easy to keep track of everything - including what person needs to do which steps, who is ready to move on, etc. 

It also helps to keep all 3rd parties I do hiring for separate from the others so there is no confusion. A majority of my work is being done through Fountain. Every important thing I need from someone, especially certain small details, is all a click away.

It has improved so much. We used to use Excel. Something somehow always went wrong. With Monday, everything is just so easy. I can make separate columns. It's really understandable. It's well organized. I just love it! 

The separation of companies I hire for is quite helpful. Being able to keep track of everything has never been so easy. It has avoided our companies from having to look everywhere for certain things. It has taken time-consuming tasks down from minutes to seconds. It's easier to get things done.

Group separation and being able to change the colors of some categories are great. 

That has been what I love the most. We used to have everything on paper and everything with colorful tabs to separate things. It's frustrating when everything keeps falling off. 

With Monday, everything is just one click away. Everything we have is separated by groups within groups. Color has different meaning. We know when the tab is green by their name there ready to move on to the next thing. When something is red we know we are missing important documents. My co-workers and I are always on track and knowing what to get done with the hiring process.

We'd like to see less downtime. There have been times when I really needed to use Monday and it would be down for half a day and saying there is an error with the system. 

Sometimes it can be really slow as well. Everything we need is kept on Monday. When Monday is down for half the day it's just a lot of time wasted. There are times we missed timelines to call certain places, as, by the time the system was finally up, the place we needed to call or the person we hired was no longer available.

I been using Monday for half a year now.

We used Excel before. We wanted something less time-consuming and more understandable. 

It's worth the price. The product has made everything a lot easier.

We did look at other options. I wasn't the one who picked Monday, however.

We use the solution for task management and social media content planning. Our content creator would create a card for each post that we do. We then start gathering the content and images or design images as needed. This then goes to our copywriting team for approval and any edits that may be needed. Once approved, we update the statuses. We also make use of guest accounts for the rest of our company to view the content.

Our UX team also works on Monday.com - we have several projects on the go so it is easy to separate these. We list all the pages that we need to create in a particular flow and assign it and track our time this way.

The solution offers us one place to do all planning - and allows us to never forget any tasks as we email all our work to a planning board.

When we get requests and jobs from the rest of our company, I can simply forward the email to our backlog address. This is very convenient and ensures we never miss any work.

Due to the fact that it syncs with our calendars, the whole team is always sure on what they should be working and when the deadlines are arriving. 

It is also easy for us to share a viewer account with our exco and they can see where we are with our work.

We really use the custom columns quote a lot and also the statuses and the different views. We can quickly review our list but also see what our scheduling is like with the Gantt view.

The Gantt view really helps us make the most use of our productive time and ensures that we do not have any idle time from any of the team. It even helps us plan our leave well.

I myself particularly like the Windows and Android apps as well, so that one can work on the boards even if they do not have connectivity at the time.

Perhaps a nice Outlook plugin to copy tasks from Outlook would be beneficial. The same could work on Gmail. I have seen similar productivity App Store links to the specific emails and when you click on them you can go directly to Outlook/Gmail and view the request. Currently, we forward all the emails to the board, however, it can get messy when multiple signatures and replies, etc start happening - especially if we cc the board's email address.

A quick paste feature for screenshots would be very handy.

We have been using Monday.com for almost three years. We manage three teams and all our digital content on the platform. It is very easy to use and consolidates all our work tracking brilliantly.

The solution is very stable - we have not had any issues besides some slow speeds about three years ago.

The product can scale to any amount of users in our company.

Support has been great.

Positive

We used Trello previously. The Trello options were a bit limiting.

The initial setup was straightforward. 

We handled the setup in-house. It was very easy to start using everything. 

I am not sure what our ROI is. 

We compared the product with Todoist Business.

We use Monday as a CRM. We use the boards to organize client details, details of all our projects, and sensitive information such as telephone numbers and addresses. 

We also use the boards to update and provide site reports to other members of the team. In addition to this, Monday has been useful for the team to note down their daily tasks so that everyone is aware of what the team is doing, updating people's calendars, and keeping up to date with completed projects that we have done, so if clients have any questions after the install we can keep this up to date. 

Monday has been really beneficial in allowing us to place all of our records in one place. We were previously using Google Drive files, which took up quite a bit of time to continually update and edit. 

Monday has saved us time and allowed us to easily take on more projects as the admin side is so much easier. The easy-to-edit interface means we can quickly add or change things in our meetings, assign team members to certain tasks, and quickly look up a particular client's details whenever we need to access them. 

The most valuable features for us would be workspaces, boards, and file upload capability. 

The workspaces are clearly laid out and allow us to fill in details of clients and tasks organized into categories. For us, this includes projects we're currently working on, projects we have worked on, and projects we're planning to work on in the future. 

The boards on Monday have meant we've been able to easily assign tasks for ourselves and others, and file upload means we can see all relevant documents in one place. 

Constant updates mean the service is down sometimes, which isn't ideal. 

There are many features we haven't explored yet so sometimes we find the database slightly clunky. However, this could be because we haven't explored the range of apps available. 

Since our team didn't use Monday until more recently, it can mean they're not used to knowing all of its advantages and apps. This means we can double up on information being inputted into Monday. Again, I would put this down to user error over the effectiveness of Monday. 

We've been using Monday for approximately 18 months.

The stability is good most of the time

In terms of capability for scale, I would say it is very good, however, the price point would be off-putting for a smaller business. For example, the cost of our membership is £140 per month because we have 6 seats. It may be a good option to have different prices for 6, 7 or 8 team members, rather than jump from 5-10 which for small businesses is quite a significant number. 

Customer service is fairly good, although, due to the time difference in the UK, it can be difficult to get instant support. You also never speak to the same person twice. 

Neutral

Our previous CRM was simply Google Drive files. We switched due to the fact that we wanted a simpler system in one place. 

The initial setup was straightforward

We handled the setup in-house.

I would advise considering the cost and whether it is worthwhile for how much you're going to use it. 

We evaluated the choice of using a CRM, however, Monday was the first that we tried. 

Before all of our tasks were sent by email and each employee took care of their own tasks and deadlines. This process was confusing as we had a huge amount of emails between the team. 

After the Monday.com implementation, we had an increase in productivity. All the employees reduced their time micromanaging all the tasks they were doing and had a platform already set up with automation to make the job easier and also the workflow between team members. 

Also, the organization of projects and being able to create boards for each project and have the team involved in this project and able to track down the process of everyone is a positive outcome. 

All of our tasks and projects are on Monday.com.  

This was the best solution we found in the market. We did a long search and did a lot of tests to choose Monday.com as our best option.  

The board system changes how we organize and execute our projects. After using Monday we saw gaps to improve on how we were executing the projects. We have team members in different countries having all in Monday is a perfect intersection point for all team members to collaborate with the project they are involved with. 

The automation process is one of the best. We can organize the workflow through different employees, and after they finishes with the task and updating the thread this goes automatically to a different team member making the project flowing more smoothly. 

The new pages feature also was a big one that all the team is using now. Having all of this features on computer, phone, or tablet makes to keep track even if you are out of the office because any reason. It made the team more put together and involved in the projects. 

I loved the new feature of the page document inside Monday.com. The only one that we don't use as much is uploading the files to be accessed on Monday. 

Now, we are using a cloud option and then we send the link on Monday to the other team members. It was too slow and with some bugs sometimes. We had to download a simple image to see it instead be able to check directly on Monday (the bug was that the image didn't appear when enlarged). Having a different section just with the functionality as a cloud service so you can organize and see the files better would be great. 

I've used the solution for two years.

Stability is amazing. We had only two or three days where it wasn't working just for a few hours. Two of those days were updates on their end. And other was an issue, they provided a link to follow up what happened and where the problems where located on the platform 

I know they can improve a lot and hopefully will continue creating more tools like any other cloud solution. 

So far we didn't have to use technical support too much, however, it was ok. 

Neutral

We used Trello. We changed it as it was too simple. 

The setup was straightforward.

The implementation was with a vendor partly, which was pretty good, however, we practically did it ourselves.

Quality/time executing the project has been a positive ROI for us. 

Knowing your needs is the main thing. That way you can select the best option. Don't go cheap if will give more trouble for your team/project.

We also looked at Asana, Smartsheet, and Hubspot.

I work in the affiliate marketing industry, where we have numerous content blogs as well as other promotional models. Monday.com has helped us greatly in the organization and flow of our processes. It allows us to visualize the information in different ways, and therefore have a clear and established process of what needs to be done for each item. It also facilitates the organization and prioritization of our daily and weekly activities. Likewise, I use it to organize my projects and to have a clear and previously established process.

Monday has made our task overview much easier. It allows us to place our key actions for the day or week, and visualize those activities in different ways. It also lets our superiors know what we are working on, or if we have any specific blocks.

Finally, it has allowed us to establish clear processes for each specific task that is carried out within the company, and thus optimize our time. For example, it allows us to organize our work and personal projects, establishing the perfect order of each activity and its level of priority.

The most important feature is to be able to import items from Excel and place them in a Monday file. It allows us to drag primary information and establish clear processes of how each item is going to be attacked. It also allows us to add owners so that each person knows which item corresponds to them and can complete their activities accordingly. 

Another very important feature is the placement of dates. It allows us to know in advance when each part of the project would be finished, and thus optimize our time.

One feature that would certainly improve on Monday is the fact that each group of a board has the same columns. I would find it interesting to put the option of each group having different columns. For instance, a group of data from the final step of a process should have more columns than the previous ones, referring to final activities that correspond to the end of a process. Another aspect of Monday that I'm not such a fan of is the infinite scroll to the right. Other alternatives could be evaluated to improve this.

I have been using Monday.com for about two years now.

Previously we were using Excel for our organization, but we realized that it was not the optimal tool to organize processes in which many employees had to fulfil a part of the process. For this reason, we decided to use Monday's tool and it has worked great for us.

The integration with other applications is very easy and I have not had any problems in almost two years of use.

We evaluated the option of using ClickUp. We decided to stick with Monday as it offered us a more competitive price and the features are quite similar.

Monday is an excellent tool. I highly recommend it.