monday.com Reviews

I use the solution for project planning for software and UX design projects. 

The product has helped our organization greatly. It's helped us organize and collaborate with clients and has been a great foundation/framework to support our growth.

We really enjoy table planning, documentation, instant Gantt charting, and collaboration. Emailing the board in updates is great. It offers helpful kanban views and multiple views in general. We can share it with clients as guests. 

Story mapping would be ideal. Being able to create topic threads, not as updates and instead similar to Basecamp (in that it becomes a forum) would be useful. 

Timetracking should be a little more powerful. A full harvest integration or something similar that allows time spent vs budget would be good. 

The solution should offer burndown charts.

I've been using the solution for two years.

The stability is quite good.

The scalability is good.

Technical support is excellent and very proactive. 

Positive

We used to use Jira and switched as it's horrendously overcomplicated, scaled terribly, and takes the hardest path to a simple outcome. 

The setup is easy. It's great to let the user demo it for free. 

We did the setup in-house. It was not a great experience. I did it mostly myself. 

ROI is unmeasurable in context of the product, however, I feel very satisfied we get value from the Monday investment. 

We looked at Jira and Basecamp.

We use the solution for marketing and creative project management. 

As a marketing manager, we brief on tasks within Monday.com including all details of the project, such as vertical, status, delivery date, etc. Our traffic manager assigns tasks based on the studio team's availability and priority. 

Mainly, Monday.com is the main tool for our traffic manager to manage a variety of tasks between marketing managers and creatives. 

Once assigned, we can track who the assigned person is and then track the process. It is a very useful tool for tracking things. 

It made the collaboration between marketing and creative studio teams much neater and seamless. 

Previously, we've used normal Google Sheets. In the beginning, it was manageable. However, once our projects became bigger (alongside the employee count), it became hard to manage between lots of sheets. Then Monday.com came in and it's pretty much a super clear tool to streamline all project collaboration between marketing managers and studio. 

Also, as we can sync Monday.com with our Slack or an email, it's nice to get notifications on how our project is moving. 

I love how we can color coordinate between statuses and how statuses jump into their respective groups automatically once chosen. Although personally, I don't use it often, I like how managers can see the workloads of designers and editors in color coordination, and based on that they can let the marketing managers know who has the capacity or whether the team is full. It helps to be aware of incoming tasks. It also helps us to determine project prioritizing and planning ahead more efficiently. As a creative person, it's nice to see their timeline of jobs done as accomplishments. 

As a marketing manager, I'm happy with the current features that we're using now. Within our company, we use different software to proof tasks or amend them so it's no problem. We're using Monday.com more on a basic level of assigning and tracking tasks and probably are missing some of the nice features. However, it would be ideal if Monday.com had this feature within itself, for example, if an input PDF or image was within it, then with one click the person can review it within Monday.com without going to different software.

I've used the solution for about three years.

Previously I've used Trello for managing freelancers and internal tasks. Then our company adapted monday.com as an official studio management tool, hence I moved to the monday.com. It's definitely easier to use and manage both internal and external stakeholders. 

Monday.com was chosen by the upper management and we've gone with it. 

We love the product and its UX. 

We are a manufacturing company and we use Monday.com to keep track of our production log. It has simplified our work and all employees can access it from anywhere. 

We also use it for our sample logs, employee holidays and to see the invoice statuses.

All employees can access it so everyone is in the know of what jobs are coming in and what jobs are going out.

We can see what date something came in to our goods in, what we received using the description column, when invoices have been paid and what date the goods are expected to be delivered back to the customer.

All of it is great. It has a section for everything and you can create automation so it fits your needs perfectly.

It does everything we need it to, so I would say no improvements are necessary.

if I had to say something .. a link between boards that takes you to the board in question when you click on it.

e.g. board 1 for samples - related to board 2 production. If I could add a link from the sample to then take you to see what job it relates too (similar to when you click the link on the message area).

We've used the solution for approximately two years.

The stability is great.

The scalability is great.

We have not yet used technical support, however, I have noticed when the platform is down, it gets resolved very quickly.

Positive

We used Excel which was not as user-friendly and not as easily accessible for employees. We switched to Monday.com

It's a very straightforward setup - all of the employees profiles are added at the beginning and can start viewing straight away.

We handled the setup in-house.

The product is well worth the money - a one stop shop management system.

We use Monday for project management across our marketing projects and for budget management for campaigns. We have a small team, so it's really important that we are as efficient as possible and there's just no bandwidth for micromanaging a process. We need it to run smoothly on its own.

For the most part, we collaborate on a process, put it in Monday with assignments, and then the project essentially runs itself as long as we are sticking to the timeline that we set the project up with. It saves us a lot of time.

Monday gives us more visibility into the overall bandwidth of our team and makes it much easier to collaborate across several projects without losing emails or random Slack messages across different channels or group chats. This has given us one central place for information related to our various projects so time spent searching for answers or managing project timelines is greatly decreased. It also lets us manage workload so we are able to advocate for enforcing priorities within the organization.

The "My Week" view and task list are probably the most helpful for us - it's really great to set a project schedule and assign people to tasks. That way, they can have a preview of their work for the week and stay accountable for deliverables with no surprises. 

It's also easy to adjust schedules right within that view and give updates to the broader team so everyone stays on the same page. 

The added accountability and efficiency allow us to spend time on doing the work rather than figuring out how to do the work

The addition of subtasks was really great. It helps reduce a lot of the clutter on our boards. However, sometimes it is inhibitive to use them as the features available using main tasks don't apply to subtasks. It would be really great if we could calculate some of the same things or use them in dashboards or the different views that are available. 

I know sometimes we can, however, it's not consistent so it's hard to know when we're limiting ourselves by using the subtasks instead of the main tasks in a group.

I've used the solution for three years.

We did not use a different solution previously.

There's a lot of value in using Monday. User adoption is key, however. You get out of it what you put into it. If you're using it for project management, it can easily fail if even one or two people aren't bought in.

We did not evaluate other options. 

We use the solution for project and team management. 

We use this to track project timelines, hours used, and the teams assigned to work on them. We also connect with clients in different time zones using the Monday.com platform and it has been working great for now. 

There are some things I think it should implement, however, overall, it is a great platform to use for big or small teams. The organization capabilities are the main draw. I wish it had a better integration with Google Drive to share assets though. 

Overall it does what we need which is to keep the team and projects aligned and organized.

We are a company with overseas teams and the platform helps us be all connected and updated in all of the projects we handle on a daily basis. 

We also connect with clients and stakeholders on any updates a project may need to have. 

We also use it for onboarding clients and new team members. This helps streamline the process and makes it very easy for everyone to learn the tool since we can set it up as different steps they need to go through. 

Everyone is happy with this solution and also with the new features they launch every month. 

The solution is helpful for managing statuses for projects, notifications, and comment sections. I especially like the dashboards where you can combine info from different boards into one. 

I like the system's integration features since they allow me to streamline my work process. The UI/UX is simple and easy to use, making it easy to see where projects are and where they are headed. I particularly like how we can post summaries and project ideas in clearly accessible locations. 

Everything we do is documented, which is useful for both internal and external purposes.

It would be nice to have more custom automation and also to simplify some steps to better manage a team and a workload for projects. It would also be nice to integrate a billing system in it for agencies to bill their clients.

There are some features that are overcomplicated to implement and that are not great for the user. I don't want to have to call someone every time I want to set up new automation or special board to get help. 

There are some things we would like to be able to do that the platform doesn't have integrated and a lot of other platforms are needed to make it work. 

I've used the solution for almost two years.

We've had a good experience so far; all our questions were answered or solved.

Positive

Yes, however, this one is the one my current company uses.

We did the setup in-house.

The pricing is a bit high for the enterprise level and it doesn't offer that many extra features.

Yes, however, it was not my decision to go with this product.

There are things to improve, however, they are constantly adding new features for the users.

It's a great app for project leading. As an event and promotion agency, we're more than ever very sensitive to all the costs of managing and communicating streams of understanding. We also use it for event and shift scheduling. 

It's great for feedback with clients where you could have all the relevant information associated with a particular project in one place. The solution is great for sharing attachments and links for all photo albums on our Google Drive. 

I definitely use it for my personal goals and projects. 

All the improvements though years are very handy.

We were struggling with duplicate information previously and Monday brought more effectiveness to our work in many ways. We could share all information in one "live" stream. 

With a client "on board" who's are very comfortable with this particular service, it helps to improve business relationships as well. 

When you have a tool that anybody can use from all devices, it spares some time so that you could do and handle way more things. 

The custom-made boards and solutions are good.

The dashboard is great for knowing what's most important and what's next. 

We would like to have more open boards at one time and more CRM functionalities.

We've used the solution for four years - since 2018.

The stability is great.

The scalability is great.

We used Asana. It was too difficult.

We've had an ROI of $560 USD.

I'd advise new users to always check you filled out their VAT ID.

We did not look at other options. It was love at first sight.

I'd advise customers to try it for free first and then decide. 

We primarily use Monday to keep track of action items for project management dealing with software development. 

Our team manages multiple projects, and, for each project, we are able to create the individual tasks that need to be completed in order to finish the project.  

We also use Monday to share with our team times that we will not be in the office or be available for team meetings.  

It allows us to see which tasks are being worked on and which ones we have not started. It keeps our team members informed about our activities.

It helps us to keep track of all of the remaining tasks on a project and the remaining number of days that exist on a project.  

It provides all team members with insights into multiple projects.  

It also allows us to share information about project statuses with other team members.  

I do like the feature where you can indicate whether you are working on a particular task or if you are stuck on a task. 

It also gives provides more insight into the possible amount of time it could take to complete a specific task.  

The ability to upload files associated with a particular task is very useful to us.

It helps us share examples of reports with our team members. 

I have also found the task status feature to be valuable. You can indicate whether you have started on a task, are stuck on it, or have completed it.  

I also like that you can add your own columns to each task within a project.  

For example, if you wanted to add a column that's not already included in the Monday app to track a specific item for a project, you can do that as well.

The calendar selection for dates is not the easiest to navigate. Sometimes once you select a start date, it is hard to extend the selection out to the end date.  The date selection is confusing. If there was another method that they could use for this that would be better.  

Also, I feel as though sometimes I received notifications for Monday boards that I am not even subscribed to and the notifications, in general, are a bit much.  There should be a way to indicate which Monday boards you would like to receive notifications for.

I've used the solution for two years.

I have not had a reason to contact customer service or support.

Neutral

I did not use a different solution previously.

The Monday board was initially set up by our administrator so most of the team members did not participate in the setup process.

I believe it was done through an in-house team.

I am not sure what the cost is.

I did not evaluate other options.

We use the product to deal with micro-projects that are going through multiple stages, such as quoting products, ordering samples, designing, production and finally shipping. Having all these allows all members of our team to be aware of where we are right now. 

We use different boards too and I like that projects of different boards still can be connected. 

We basically use it as a to-do list as well for everything, even to purchase office supplies, which is great as we don't need to use multiple communication channels.  

It helped a lot to be honest. We now have a good visual representation of what we are doing. Before, our projects were piled and we could not really see the progress of each one, or at what stage we were at. However, when we started to use Monday, we sorted out all the mess and now the picture looks quite pretty. 

Having an opportunity to leave comments in the body of the project allows us to keep all information within one software, instead of sending endless emails and possibly missing some important details. 

I like that we can move projects from one stage to another, which also allows user to track the progress. It's really easy to use. When we have new people to on-board it does not take hours to train them on how to use this platform.

Another beneficial part is that we can use templates, which also make a user's life way easier. At the same time, for those who feel like templates are too boring, there is an option to customize the interface. Basically, every little need can be satisfied. moreover, it offers in-app automation. 

So far, I am happy, however, I know that Gantt charts and calendar views aren’t available on the entry-level plan - even if you’re paying $24 per month. To access time tracking and private boards, you’ll need to upgrade to the third tier. 

It spams my inbox with many unwanted emails. 

We are using a very simple project, therefore I can't see many drawbacks, however, it looks like if we were dealing with complicated projects, some things would possibly get lost. Therefore, having subtasks is a must; it has to be managed well.

I've used the solution for around a year and a half.

The stability is fine.

The scalability is very good.

I've never had an issue.

Neutral

When I joined, the team was already using Monday.

The initial setup was straightforward. 

I don't know if the company asked for help from outside vendors. 

I don't have ROI information.

I dont have any access to this information.