monday.com Reviews

We use the solution for project management across the web team specifically responsible for desktop, tablet, and mobile design. Our team used this platform for planning projects, discussing blocks, and triggering the next steps for teams outside of the platform. 

We moved on from Monday.com only for the reason that there was a proprietary project management tool already taking over the company and since we weren't a part of it we were missing out on visibility to stakeholders. We switched over recently to Workfront in order to maintain that visibility.

It allowed us to gain line of sight and start to ask ourselves questions revolving around project management, time on tasks, and the processes that we weren't asking previously. 

It gave us the platform to start to combat burnout and increase communication across teams that were difficult to reach in a more automative and efficient way. Ultimately, Monday.com gave everyone on the team a workspace to get their work done. It was also a home base for all things work where they could see today, tomorrow, and forever if they wanted. 

We really enjoyed the sub-items feature, sharing GIFs, and templates. 

The templates helped me to kick off process solutions for our team. 

The sub-items helped me to incorporate the smaller tasks to get the job done down and visible for management and planing purposes.

For a team where management is still learning the nuances of our work, time tracking the small steps are so important in planning and evangelizing the work.

The GIF sharing helped reinforce a sense of culture and camaraderie amongst our team.

We built so many dashboards and information utilizing templates and came into a few errors where information and ways of working with Monday.com were not as expected. 

Monday markets itself as a project management tool that is flexible to work the way you want. That said, it has more limitations than we expected. It is fine, however, at the end of the day, they need to share more about how to use the platform videos rather than telling us to go off on our own and create something that doesn't ultimately work. That was frustrating and hard to explain where my hours went to management. 

I've used the solution for two years.

We are now using Workfront. We were using both platforms for a little while. 

We did not evaluate the other solutions previously.

We are a small church with two full-time employees and two part-time employees. We use Monday.com to plan everything from weekend gatherings to major community events. This includes every aspect of a weekend gathering or service including, graphic presentations, bulletins, music, the message, who is on security, children's ministry details, etc. 

We usually plan each quarter ahead of time, which helps us mark major events and holidays. Using color, we are able to highlight special occasions with ease. 

Monday.com keeps us all on the same page especially when we aren't all in the office at the same time. 

It has reduced inter-office emails, texts, and phone calls significantly and reduced in-person meeting times by half. From minor details to major issues that need a running thread for staff discussion, Monday.com provides a one-stop location to house all of our thoughts, plans, and discussions. 

It is as easy to use as Facebook yet with more complex options if you want to take the time to learn how to use them. 

There are many incredible features, however, the ability to tag each other in comments, mark out progress, and get alerts through the app keeps us moving forward. As soon as someone has finished their part of a project, all members are alerted, and the next person can continue on. This also helps us see if there is a problem or if someone is falling behind so we can get the extra help if necessary. 

We often post on Monday.com instead of sending emails that may or may not get lost in the shuffle. Monday.com is the best way we have found to work smarter and not harder.

We are very happy with the current state of the product. 

It would be helpful if there were a little more flexibility with user numbers and the ability to add guests for a period of time. For instance, if we are doing a major event that requires a dozen volunteers, it would be wonderful if there were some cost-effective way to give them all access to one particular board for a period of time. I understand this may not work with the business model, however, being able to allow people temporary access to a single board or even the ability to simply view a board and get alerts without breaking the bank would be icing on the cake. 

Our office has been using Monday.com for well over a year now and we could not be happier. 

Whether we are using it online via a web browser or the mobile app on our office phones and tablets, Monday.com’s stability is rock solid. We have had no data loss, crashes, or team miscommunications due to delayed web/app updates. At any time or place our team is able to access all of our shared information so we can make quick decisions. We couldn’t be happier with Monday.com’s performance.

We are a small office, however, I believe that Monday.com can be effectively scaled to fit any organization. 

We have not had to contact customer support for any reason. 

Positive

For a time, we used Trello. It did not go well.

I learned the basics and then taught the others over the course of a week. We created a test board to go along with a project we were already working on using our then current method and Monday.com. By the end of the week, we had completely transitioned.

We handled the setup in-house.

Monday.com paid for itself immediately by allowing us to be more productive and less frustrated. 

It does take a little time and money to get started, however, it is completely worth it in the end. You may have to remind people to use Monday.com rather than the old system to get them in the habit. 

We did our research, however, after a short test run, Monday.com won hands down. 

We seriously love using Monday.com.

We use the product for internal project management for every department in the business: marketing, product launches, finance, logistics etc. 

We also invite our external agencies to internal projects like SEO, Ads and Press.  

We are a small full remote team. As we grew, the complexity of projects grew as well as the number of projects. Monday helped us scale easily, understand bottlenecks, and plan accordingly. It's also been a life saver as I don't need to remember anything. It's all on Monday! We've totally moved away from emails. 

It gives managers a clear view on how projets are moving forward and they are able to give support where needed without having to constantly follow-up.  

Board templates are really good when you have recurring projects. 

Automations are perfect to save time and remind people of various tasks. 

Overall the product is really good and can adapt to any team with specific columns for each board. 

"My Work" gives you a great view of all the tasks that are due and upcoming.

The dependencies and Gantt chart could be better. I would love it to have personal views with hidden columns per board. Sometimes it can get quite overwhelming. 

I'm not a big fan of the new left panel organization by workspace. Maybe this is due to the fact that we are in a small business. 

We'd like to send emails via Monday. Ideally, being able to cc Monday tasks from our mail account could be better. (ie. sending attachments, being able to cc the task with people not in Monday (they received an error message when replying).  

I'd love it if their could be feature to plan for work time for a task (not a timeline as it shows in your "My Work" view)

We've used the solution for three years.

Stability is pretty good. Every now and then server is down. 

The scalability is very good although it would be great to have more onboarding videos. 

Technical support is super helpful and very fast to respond.

Positive

We did not use solutions.

The initial setup is super straightforward. We imported our Excel files.

We handled the setup in-house.

The ROI has been very good.

We looked into Asana, Trello, and Notion.

We are a small marketing team of about five. I was the first marketing hire. I chose Monday out of a variety of other solutions as I liked the flexibility of it and my product designer liked the look of it. 

I started managing our strategy and goals in here so our team could stay connected even though we don't live near each other or go into the same office or work in the same room. It helps us all look at the same goals and stay connected to the same mission so we are all moving in the same direction.

In short - it keeps a remote asynchronous team in sync. I keep our quarterly goals on their own board, then our monthly goals, then our weekly team items. Each function also has its own boards. For example, website development has its own project management board. SEO has its own rankings board. Our content calendar is on Monday with a space to track ideas and another space to track existing SEO rankings of published blogs and articles. Our department head and CEO can check Monday at any point to see where we are at with our marketing strategy and plan and see what the team is doing. 

The templates are extremely valuable. I wouldn't know where to start when creating something new. I like the variety in templates and the ability to customize pretty much anything. Assigning owners is also helpful. Everyone can filter the board by themselves to just see items that relate to them. The filter options give each team member a bit of brain space and allow them to prioritize what is meant exactly for them. I also like the docs to be able to brainstorm free flow, but wish they had some updates so they could be more usable.

The docs could be improved. We need docs where we can manage content management inside of Monday. Ideally, even being able to loop in some basic SEO in a panel on the side like Frase.ai would be a powerful solution and would make it difficult for businesses to pull out if everything is managed inside of Monday. 

It would be nice to see changes made, who made them, and have an approval process similar to Google Docs. Having a panel where you can pull in whatever integrations (like Frase) could help you create documents. 

The more integrated people are into the product, the better.

We need the solution to integrate with Craft. We might have to switch to Airtable as the solution doesn't integrate with Craft.

I've been using the solution for two years.

The product is very stable.

The solution is very scalable for large teams.

I've never used technical support.

Neutral

We did not previously use a different solution.

The initial setup is simple.

We did the implementation using our in-house team.

We've seen ROI across the complete organization. I don't have a number, however, we need Monday to operate

We looked into Airtable and Google Tasks.

We use Monday.com as our primary tracking tool. We have developed several boards to help track progress from sales to employee training and reviews. We have found that dashboard views to be most helpful in giving our staff a visual into the progress of their performance. The ability to communicate back and forth as well as house files essential to the boards right on Monday is priceless to the continuation of managing our projects. That is why we primarily use this as a tracking tool. We can communicate progress and chat in real-time all while looking at the same information.

It has really given us a level of communication on a central platform that far exceeds what we have endured in the past. We are able to get all pertinent personnel information in a real-time manner which is key with the bulk of employees on the go or in different states. We have collaborated with our joint ventures too by using boards in a shareable manner to give them a window into the progress of the projects we are currently progressing on. It has given us a way to present items inside and outside our corporation with another layer of professionalism by using views as charts, et cetera. 

Automation is definitely a favorite of mine. I use it to create efficiency in moving items to groups as well as triggering reminders to coworkers. This area of Monday.com alone has helped keep me on track with tasks as well as giving me a level of security in knowing that if I put the automation in place I can go about my day, focusing on other priorities and not having to remember all of my tasks. 

I also really find the linking of boards to stream information across worth its weight in gold as we navigate anywhere from tool tracking and logging to Gantt charts which we share with customers outside of Monday.

Sometimes the limit of parts on a board (500 units) can inhibit growth. I have used multiple boards to achieve things that I had hoped to do on with one due to this limit. 

Also, there needs to be an implementation of a better way to time track in order to use Monday as a payroll tracking system for employees. A clear clock in and clock out that can track up to 1/4 hours would be useful. This improvement to the time tracking would be what I would most like to see come out on a future release. It would definitely bridge so many gaps that lack in the accounting software that we use on a daily basis.

Our company has been using the product for approximately three years.

Monday.com is very stable overall. I have only experienced a few downtimes in all the years we have used it. I can say we use it right along with our accounting software and email every day.

I am impressed with the scalability options I have seen so far.

Technical support has been great. I mentioned earlier about the part item limitations; I reached out and the team was very responsive.

Positive

We did not have another tool like this previously.

If you have a basic knowledge of software, the initial set up is straightforward. 

I was not part of the initial setup, however, believe it was through a vendor team.

I would estimate it was less than 6 months until we saw an ROI. Knowing what you want is the key. The next step is just getting your employees to buy-in. Once that happens, they can see the value very quickly.

If I talk about Monday I encourage people to use the Pro Plan. The lower plans are a good place to start, however, what you gain on a Pro Plan is where I believe you get the most bang for your buck. 

I have heard of other tools and some of our employees like Microsoft Teams, however, I feel that Monday is superior in the manner it can work with Teams and other platforms to provide a more complete service.

If I were a private business consultant, I would recommend Monday.com all day long as a no-nonsense solution to improve any business. The capabilities are unmatched by the price point given by Monday.com.

Our team manages a portfolio of projects. Each team member manages their own portfolio. We use Monday.com to track projects, alongside costs, time, etc. If a client sends updates, we keep track of these notes within Monday.com as this allows team members the ability to stay in the loop with the project. 

We also use Monday.com to keep record of holidays and PTO (Paid Time Off). We utilize a dashboard that allows visibility into each persons requests to help us plan when we will need additional support to ensure project management stays on track.

It has made the entire tracking process much easier. 

It gives an easy, high-level view of the inner workings of the business. It cuts out the need to constantly send emails and follow-up emails for the current status of a project. 

It also ensures we are not wasting time waiting on responses when we can easily check the status of a project by using Monday.com. As our team continues to grow, it also provides an easy way for new team members to ensure they are 'visible' and able to see what everyone else is currently working on.

The collaboration capabilities are great. It makes it much easier to know who is working on which projects, as well as who they are working with. It's also been super helpful to be able to 'copy' an item, as so often our projects are similar in nature so I am able to quickly use the copy feature and then change a few details to match the new project. This may only save a few seconds, however, it does make things much simpler and more efficient. I also like the ability to assign a project to another team member where needed, this makes it easier to pass on work when required.

Overall, Monday.com does a good job of providing a valuable service. It's hard for me to pinpoint any areas that I feel are significantly lacking. One area perhaps that could be improved upon would be the drag feature. For example, when I need to drag one item/project from one space and move to another. Often, it can appear to move very slowly and I end up misplacing where I am intending to put the item. Otherwise, if Monday.com could increase the refresh rate of the site, that would make things a little better also.

I've used the solution for over one year now.

I've been very impressed with the stability; I have never had any issues. The system is constantly working and I've never experienced any system outages/unexpected delays from Monday.com

It is scalable. I believe it has the potential to be in every company.

We have not had to interact with customer service/support yet.

Neutral

We did not look at any other service.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The ROI we have seen is in the ease with which our team is able to efficiently work together. It's hard to put a price on that.

I'm unfamiliar with pricing as I am just a user.

Our company has only used Monday.com.

I have no notes at present; keep up the great work!

We use Monday.com as a communications solution for our different teams to effectively have individual ownership of completing assigned weekly, monthly, and quarterly tasks and projects. 

Our teams using Monday.com consists of the following: sales, management, operations/administrative, production, and more. 

I have a shared workspace with my co-music director, assistant music director, and SDR, (we'll be onboarding another SDR and assistant music director soon) where we convene weekly via meetings, take notes, then post our weekly directives with deadlines in our main workspace. 

The tiered top-down organization of teams > groups > projects > individually assigned tasks and accountability is remarkable. 

Tagging people is super easy with "pulses" that can show up in an inbox, as a direct email, as notifications on desktops and devices, of which I use multiple devices and it's great on all of them. The interaction between different company departments is seamless and our departments contribute information to each other on a minute-by-minute and hourly basis. 

The software is designed in such a way that any company can form fit it to handle complex workflow. 

I love that Monday.com has boards that can change with a click from a list, to a calendar, to a form that you can send and collect data, etc. 

Each board is malleable even if you've been using it for a long time. Redesigning and keeping your data is pretty easy. The output of information to spreadsheets is quite simple. 

There are so many other features that I haven't even tapped into, however, I sometimes look for features and there is always some kind of plug-in that Monday.com has at the ready. There are so many support options to make sure your workspace is precisely what you need to have to improve your own job's efficiency.

I'm very satisfied and don't have much to say regarding immediate improvement feedback. If it doesn't exist, perhaps there could be a simplified view of all personal tasks that haven't yet been completed. 

"My Work" is a board that is supposed to take care of this. I find that I sometimes have used the "status" column has input values other than done, working on it, etc., which conflicts with this bigger picture, and over the years is building up in a way that looks daunting as I'm not sure how to go back and mark it another way, so I skip it. This could be my own user malfunction. 

Generally, I'm quite happy with the software. 

I've been using monday.com since June of 2020. I love it. 

Monday.com seems quite stable. From June of 2020 until today, 4/20/22, I have only experienced the software being "down" maybe two times for development. It seems very stable to me even as we feed it a lot of info.

The scalability is huge. We started small and have grown to well-designed boards. We've grown to seven workspaces that I know about. Each workspace has pretty deep departmental personalities. 

I feel that customer service has probably been pretty strong. I have never heard any grumbling from our team members regarding the usability of Monday.com or challenges in figuring out how to use it. 

Positive

We mostly used Google Docs in the past for company organizing. We still do, however, we switched to Monday.com as it is way more comprehensive for project management. 

The initial set up was slightly clumsy for us, however, those growing pains faded pretty quickly once the software became familiar. 

We have many team members who are adept at setting up boards and groups efficiently now. 

The initial complexity was simply getting familiar with the depth of the software, however, it was pretty intuitive and set up well to self-educate (including "help" and online tutorials, etc.).

I don't know if we had outside assistance or not.

I don't know the price, however, we use this software every day constantly, so the return is certainly worth it. 

I'm only a user of the software; I'm not privy to the costs and licensing.

I didn't choose Monday.com. I do not know if other options were in the running. 

I received an email tonight from a person at another company who noticed that we shared a Monday.com query form to complete. She reached out to me directly via email to ask how I like Monday.com. I gave a great review to her and told her to reach out if she has questions. 

I work at a custom cabinet shop, and this isn't the first company I have worked for in this industry.

It is very convenient as all jobs/projects that I have upcoming or in progress, are really easy to keep track of. Once there is progress in the project, it gets organized into different categories so that other departments can see and use the information to their own benefit and progress. 

Once the completion happens from my side, it goes into the next category, which at that point is finished from my side.

It is really convenient thanks to the custom tabs our company has created. If there is some information missing in one department (for example, a color code that is very crucial to the paint department), I know that I need to fill that information in before the job gets sent out into production. 

Also, sometimes when it seems like you have all the information, you miss certain tabs, and they need to be filled in. Even though sometimes there isn't any information that is needed, we have a "does not apply" tab.

I found it really useful that when uploading certain files or PDFs, you can have it linked through Dropbox or Google Drive. That way, I can hop onto my phone or iPad, and can easily see the content that is linked within all the devices. 

Also, to add to that, it's really awesome that they are on all platforms. 

It works perfectly and runs very smoothly. A lot of times programs are on multiple platforms, however, they don't seem to work well, or even don't have updates to fix little bugs. This program constantly gets updated, and works flawlessly on all platforms, or should I say very well compatible. Sorry if I'm repeating myself in a different way, but for example Instagram works perfectly on phones. But when you get on the iPad or PC/Mac then it works a little differently and does not allow you to have/get certain features than you would on the phone. My point is, Monday works perfectly and the exact same way on the phone, computer or iPad.

I have used it for a year, and I don't see much that needs to be improved. It seems like the updates happen pretty often, and so far, I am very happy with the product. 

The only thing that I would change, and I'm not sure if this is part of the settings that need to be fixed by the user itself, not by the admin, is that sometimes it would be convenient to make your own categories, and it makes it difficult to constantly go and talk to my boss to get them. However, I am aware that anytime you do that, it adds the categories for all the consumers under the same company.

I have been using the program for a little over a year - since March of 2021.

No, I have not. It was on paper at my other company.

I don't know the details about pricing.

I did not evaluate other products in this situation; this is the program that was chosen by the company.