monday.com Reviews

We started by looking for a task tracking tool - something other than Microsoft or Google. Since then, we have expanded our usage to include vacation tracking, project tracking and management, lead tracking, sales funnel tracking, vacation tracking, hourly reporting and approvals, applicant tracking, and onboarding. 

Basically, we attempt to use Monday.com for any task we can think of that will simplify our day to day communications and operations management. The tool provides great flexibility for that.

Before Monday.com, we struggled to keep track of who was doing what and by when. We had multiple spreadsheets, some that we shared via email, some in Google drive. It was chaos. Dates were missed and we didn't have a clear picture of who was assigned to what, nor did we have the ability to accurately hold each other accountable for what we were working on. This was clearly not a good situation for a startup.  

Since implementing Monday.com, we are more organized, tasks are getting done, and no one can claim, "I didn't know what I had to do."

In order of impact/importance, the three key figures for us are automation, templates, and role assignments.  

The automation feature saves us hours of time reviewing activities, sending reminders, and sending emails. We use this on virtually every board in the system even if it is just to send a completed item to the archive.  

The templates are expansive (and growing), detailed, and battle-tested.  We can often slot something in with little or no modification.  

Finally, the ability to easily and quickly assign someone to something is a tremendous time-saver.

There is very little to improve with Monday.com.  

Occasionally, it takes some time to get a response from customer success, though they are always helpful. The help system is very extensive, allowing us to resolve most of our questions on our own.  

There are no features that come to mind to be added. They are so far ahead on the product roadmap; we're continually playing catch-up via the monthly webinars to be sure we're taking advantage of the new features they have been dreaming up. It's a great plus for how they handle enhancements.

I've used the solution for two years.

Occasionally (maybe once or twice a month), we'll get an error message, usually cleared up by redoing the activity (therefore it may be just a network issue). The system itself has never been down for us.

The solution scales to whatever we need. At some point, we might need an administrator.

Early on, it was fantastic and nearly in real time. Since then, there have been times when we had to wait a day or more for a response. We haven't had to use it in the past several months as we have become more self-supporting.

We previously used Excel, Google, and Outlook Tasks. They were not automated or universally visible to us. That's why we went looking for a solution.

The setup is simple. You just log in and go.

We did the setup in-house. One person learned the system and then trained everyone else.

We didn't calculate ROI, however, it has saved us hours of time and many dollars that would have been spent on point solutions.

There is virtually no setup cost other than the time it takes to learn the system and set up boards/automation.  

The pricing is a bit steep, and it's built on tiers rather than incremental users (not ideal for a small company that's adding people slowly).

We looked into Excel, Google, Outlook Tasks, Basecamp, and a couple of others in the project management space.

The sky is the limit. How big is your imagination? You can build it on Monday.com.

We use this solution for organizational purposes including when certain actions are needed from other members of the team. 

It also lets others know what stage we are in our processes. The status updates make meetings smoother by having specific questions based off notes that are inputted into items needing to be collected. The assigning feature also delegates tasks to certain memebers which can be alleviating to those who do not want to constantly tell other what to do. It is a nice touch to just notify someone that a certain task is their responsibility

It has made us more efficient by cutting back and forth conversations that can be eliminated with a glance of the workflow board. 

The certain board views for users that use different functions are amazing too as the board can become very overwhelming when there is a bunch of information on there. This view can help digest items that pertain to the tasks that you mainly focus on. 

I also noticed that people were more aware of what is needed when notating properly. This can help efficient ways to request items that are falling by the wayside.

I have found the automation very useful for reminders. There are constant reminders of important items that need to be taken care of at a certain time in our loan processes and these reminders eliminate any compliance issues that we may run into by forgetting to send certain disclosures out. The timeline of loans is always on its own timeline and has its unique constraints that make timing very valuable to us. 

The more time we save having fewer conversations about where we are at in the process the more time we have to execute other items.

More demos on how to navigate and set up certain functions could be helpful. There are a lot of features that do not get utilized for the simple reason that people do not know how to make them work. If there were more step-by-step processes, the public could learn how to utilize every feature Monday has to offer. There is a learning curve to having the board work for you. However, overall, it is very simple to use and the features need more exposure to help those who may take advantage of the automation.

We have been using this for one and a half years.

The stability can be spotty at times, however, it happens very rarely.

The scalability is impressive. The amount of users that can engage with this is unlimited.

I have not had to call them quite yet.

Positive

We were using Trello beforehand and we had more sale volume to the point that it was not supporting us well. Monday helped alleviate a lot of pain points that we ran into when trying to find an organizational tool to help our workflow

The setup was straightforward with the exception of the coding features.

One of our associates set up the whole system. It took many meetings to agree on how the board should look and what we should focus on.

I can't quantify ROI quite yet.

It is very reasonably priced and worth the effort to get workflows down as there are many features that can help other businesses function efficiently.

We honestly tried this solution shortly after Trello and did not find any other competitors that we were interested in. Although Salesforce is one of the other platforms we were considering, the costs did not make sense for us.

I advise that the company has one person curate the website. It can be messy having many editors and items getting deleted by accident.

I run a small company with a virtual team spread across three countries and three different timezones. We manage all work through a range of boards on Monday. Whether that is projects like the translation of an online course, or ongoing tasks like keeping track of which expenses are missing receipts in our bookkeeping software, to a recently developed social media posting calendar we are moving more and more towards Monday. 

We are also looking at customer support (tickets) and a board for company objectives and KPIs.

Monday.com has made it much easier to keep track of a wide range of tasks whilst we have a team distributed over multiple countries and timezones. It saves a huge amount of email and people can update their tasks when required. Others can review progress or comment on it. It also allows my team to progress work with myself only having to be involved at the last step to review and approve.

We are progressively also saving money as we turn off other software platforms and move as much work into Monday. We recently turned off an expense social media scheduler for a combination of Monday and Canva (which we already had).

I love that on Monday.com I can invite as many 'guests' into our account as I need, that has made collaborating with freelancers much easier and more cost-effective. This was one of the key reasons I left another platform - it was simply to expensive to add freelancers as they all required their own paid access. With Monday.com I can have my core team with full paid access and then get as many freelancers onboard as required when we are working on a project.

There is also a continuous stream of improved functionality that opens up new possibilities. 

Without having to go to the Enterprise level, I would love to see better:

Access controls so that we can securely build boards that we can share with clients to manage their work/projects (and in our own branding and own URL).

Integration with SharePoint so that it becomes easier to find and share files stored in SharePoint.

Integration with Canva so we can add a URL from a Canva design in our social media planner and it automatically shows a preview of the post image without having to also attach the Canva design as a PDF to the item on Monday.

I've used the solution for almost three years.

The stability is excellent.

The scalability is excellent.

I did reach out to support once or twice and they were helpful and fast.

Positive

I used Asana before and I switched as it was too expensive to have freelancers or ad hoc users (they all needed a paid account).

The initial setup is simple.

We handled the initial setup in-house, however, I did reach out to support once or twice and they were helpful and fast.

ROI has been very good.

We looked at both Asana and Trello.

When you put in some time and effort to understand what is possible and encourage your team to explore and play around, it is quite amazing how much you can do with the product.

Our business uses Monday.com to communicate assignments to each of our departments. Our management then receives the notice of the new assignments, can communicate with other staff in an organized location related to the said assignment, and can do all of this for multiple assignments at once. 

Monday.com is a very organized and easy-to-use tool. 

We also use this tool as a way to track the status of online sales. We only have about half a dozen of online sales active at any time (we are 99% storefront retail, with very rare cases of online sales) and Monday.com allows the storefronts to keep track of the online sale status all in one convenient place that one of our users keeps updated as the status of the sale changes.

Our business has produced a new level of communication and understanding of work needing to be completed that we did not have prior to using Monday.com. Prior to using Monday.com, we were primarily using texts and phone calls to communicate, but by not using an all-inclusive form of communication, a lot of vital information was lost in the weeds and Monday.com has resolved all of these issues. Monday.com allows us to keep all communication local to the problem in question, while not losing the information needed to succeed.

The communication/update section on each assignment is excellent. The ability to ask and answer questions and update each other on the progress of an assignment, while staying in the confines of that specific assignment, while also not disturbing other assignments or adding confusion is a priceless asset. 

As I included in my previous answer, we were primarily using texts and phone calls to communicate, but by not using an all-inclusive form of communication, a lot of vital information was lost in the weeds and Monday.com has resolved all of
these issues. 

Monday.com allows us to keep all communication local to the problem in question, while not losing the information needed to succeed.

There should be on-screen PC/Mac notifications when the website/service is not open on the screen. If they made it similar to a social media notification, that would be a bonus. From what I've been able to find, this is not a current feature with Monday.com. 

Another area of improvement would probably be a form of inclusion from outside sources of communication. I would love to be able to read a Monday.com notification on an Apple Watch, use voice-to-text to respond to the said notification, and then have that response get added to the Monday.com assignment in question.

Again, these may already be implemented in some form or fashion, however, I have yet to find them.

Our business has been using Monday.com for almost two years now.

Our company's instance of Monday.com is cloud-hosted and we have no impression of the service halting in the future. We plan to use this service as our sole project management solution.

Our company's instance of Monday.com is fairly small compared to other instances that I have seen. Our company only has around 25 employees that use Monday.com on a day-to-day basis. We keep everything within a couple of pages, and I've seen corporations that have dozens of pages open within their instance with each page essentially being used as an individual storefront. I have definitely seen cases of use where we could grow our company's instance into much more in-depth management, however, we have yet to see a need to.

We have had minimal communication with customer service and/or support, only due to the fact that we haven't needed support in any way so far. Everything has run smoothly.

Positive

We have tried multiple solutions in the past (Asana, Whatsapp), however, have found that Monday.com has been the easiest product to integrate completely into our day-to-day with our staff. 

We have a staff of upper-level management that doesn't always want to conform to new technological inclusions into our business, especially on a day-to-day level, and we have had little to no push back on our integration with Monday.com. 

All levels of management use it on a day-to-day basis and company-wide, we have had great success in communication and a higher rate of completion by the deadline on projects and assignments created within the Monday.com platform.

The initial setup is completely straightforward. Our VP had no issues setting up the service for our company.

The solution was implemented in-house.

Our ROI with Monday.com is primarily based on job accuracy and completion by goal dates issued by upper management. While we don't directly quantify a financial ROI for Monday.com within our business, we do acknowledge the growth in information retainment, higher job accuracy within our lower-level staff, and higher completion by goal dates company-wide since implementing Monday.com into our business.

I'd advise new users to prepare to budget around Monday.com being a needed product that is never considered a dropable product. It has become a massive asset to our day-to-day production, and we plan to run full speed with Monday.com as our primary project management tool. 

It was extremely simple and easy to set up for our vice president who was then able to individually invite the required staff into our company's instance of Monday.com, and within an hour he had created the infrastructure that we have operated for the last two years.

As I said previously, we have tried multiple solutions in the past (Asana, Whatsapp). I have found that Monday.com has been the easiest product to integrate completely into our day-to-day with our staff.

Monday.com is a fantastic project management tool that our company would recommend to any company working in any field with a deadline.

I use this solution for project management and events planning. I manage a school (kids from three years to 17 years old). In my school there are more than 1200 students and 80 teachers, so it has been hard to organize them all. We use the Google Suite, however, we needed a tool to manage the projects and plan the events.

We also use it to organize the documentation we need to have to achieve our quality standards. As we can have a clear view of what we have and what we do not; we realize in what areas we have to work harder.

It has helped me to organize the important things, projects, and events in a better way. We have bought ten accounts for the managers, so we are connected and working on the projects. We would like to integrate all of our collaborators but it is expensive. 

Since we started to use Monday, we have been able to have a clear view of how organized we are, we have created a board for the important things that the school has to do. We assign responsibilities for each activity and they receive an email about it, it is awesome. 

The most valuable tools I have found on Monday.com are the calendar, automatization, and the capabilities to link apps like Google Forms. We have been able to integrate our Google Suite to Monday. 

It is also good to receive reminders about projects and deadlines. Besides that, it has been not hard to learn how to use it. I really love the integrations, we use Integromat to link our Google Forms to Monday. 

It is also a great app for desktops and cellphones. 

I have found many good options to organize my time, my projects, and my events.

It should be cheaper. 

It should have more options to create panels.

It should also have options to share the boards or some info directly to Gmail. 

In premium accounts, the amount of transactions allowed is so low. We have not been able to integrate more apps due to this limitation. 

There is not enough information in Spanish. Most of my users do not speak English. It has been hard to learn to use all the functions.

I would also want some plans with fewer permissions. Maybe they could have access to just one board so that accounts could be cheaper. We have 80 teachers and we need that they are enrolled in just one board. We do not want to pay just for one board. 

I've used the solution for two years. 

We have not had problems with the solution. There have just been some crashes on my iPad.

I really like that we can grow as much as we want. The only bad thing is the price.

It has been good. I have written two times and I have received good and quick answers.

Positive

I did not use a different solution. We use the Google Suite, however, it is not the same. It does not have a management tool.

There is not enough information in Spanish; the tutorial videos were not so clear, however, it is easy to use it.

I implemented the product by myself.

The ROI of using this app has been 4 to 1 as we have optimized our work.

I always say it is expensive, yet it is worth it, especially if you run a company with many projects and events.

We evaluated Asana, however, we did not like it at all. We also tried ToDo app, however, it was not enough.

There should be cheaper plans with fewer options and maybe with access to one board or something like that.

We use Monday.com as our primary method of communication in an entirely remote agency environment. 

The agency went remote at the beginning of the pandemic and needed a communication and file sharing solution as we were no longer sharing office space. 

We use Monday.com not only to communicate throughout the workday but also use it to manage individual jobs and deadlines for these jobs. We also use Monday.com to share project files with one another so that we can work collaboratively on our projects.

Before we started using Monday.com we were using an alternative project management software, however, the features were relatively limited in comparison to Monday.com. 

Monday.com has improved the efficiency in which we manage jobs and clients. It has also improved our overall company communication and effectiveness. Monday.com has allowed us to maintain a company culture and working structure while working completely remotely. It helps us manage our deadlines effectively and ensure that we stay on top of all of our deadlines.

Personally, my favorite feature on Monday.com is the Inbox. The Inbox helps me identify the most important notifications as these are the ones that I specifically mentioned. This ensures that I don't miss any pressing questions or briefs from my team. 

I also find that board customization is an incredibly valuable feature, we are able to customize the columns of our boards according to our needs and the role that a particular board plays in our organization. Board customization helps us to make Monday.com fit our individual needs as an organization.

I am incredibly happy with the desktop experience of Monday.com, however, I struggle to use the mobile version of Monday.com. Monday.com's mobile app would be an incredibly useful tool allowing me to manage jobs and touch base with my team on the go, however, the mobile app is not suited to a mobile user's experience. The Monday.com mobile app is similar to the desktop app just smaller; I find that the information is cramped and hard to navigate. The desktop format is not suited for a mobile user experience and I think that the user experience of the Monday.com mobile app needs to be completely rethought.

I've used the solution for about two and a half years.

Monday.com is very stable. In the last 2.5 years of using the platform, it has only been down once or twice and for relatively short periods of time and did not disrupt the workflow.

I work in a relatively small team and Monday.com is incredibly useful for our team size in regards to communication and costing. However, the platform is scalable and would help the efficiency of larger teams and companies as well.

We, fortunately, have not had issues with Monday.com where we have needed customer support, however, on the few occasions where the platform has had outages their website. https://status.monday.com/ has been invaluable in keeping us in the loop in regards to the outage and what is being done about it.

Positive

Prior to using Monday.com, the company made use of Trello. Trello was a useful software and easy to use but did not have as many features or as much customization as Monday.com. 

Yes, Monday.com was very straightforward in terms of setup. I did not find that starting on the platform was complicated and got the hang of using the platform very quickly.

We used the solution in-house.

Monday.com is incredibly useful for smaller teams as you pay per user on the platform. We use the Pro package, however, there are other plans for different prices as well.

We looked at staying with Trello and we looked at other software such as Todoist and Microsoft Teams. 

Monday.com is by far my favorite work-from-home solution.

We use Monday.com to manage all of our design and marketing departments. It helps us track all the projects in the pipeline, who is the lead of the project, and who is the designer. This makes it easy for our marketing strategists, who are in charge of the designers, to see which projects each of the designers are working on and be able to assign tasks easier. 

We do a lot of events organizing on Monday.com too. This is why we like to have specifically different boards for our tasks that aren't the same as our everyday boards. 

We love that we can track all past projects that we've done, and segment them based on who worked on the project. We work with a lot of clients that need a breakdown of everything that we've implemented each quarter for them. Being able to export a PDF based on the tags on each task has made it a breeze for us to stay organized and know exactly what we've done for each of our clients. We have 200+ clients, so sometimes it can be chaotic, however, Monday.com makes that aspect so much easier for us. 

Adding subitems to each task has made multi-dimensional projects easier to manage. We have a lot of projects for the events and tradeshows that we host, and sometimes we need to break down a simple project into multiple steps and assign each subitem to a different person. 

We also love that we can keep track of the status of the project and assign deadlines, as well as have tabs on where the project is in the process. 

Being able to see your own personal specific projects makes it that much more accessible a program and is great for work productivity.  

We'd really like to have the ability to have different types of boards within a board. Sometimes we don't need the same columns for every task and we'd like to customize each task board within the motherboard. We use to have tasks with different columns and information rather than it having to be the same for every task board within the main board. This would make it so much easier for us when it comes to special projects that have varying needs and not every column will fit into the same board. 

I've used the solution for about one year now, however, my team has been using it for more than two years. 

The stability is great. 

The scalability is great. 

I personally have not had any experience with customer support, however, technical issues are usually fixed very quickly. 

Positive

We used to use multiple different programs, including Teams, however, it didnt have as much functionality that we need. 

The initial setup is very straightforward and super easy to navigate. 

We handled the setup in-house. 

It's definitely worth the cost when you are using it for work or for a team of employees that you need to manage. 

We evaluated Microsoft Teams, Asana, etc. 

I work for a small digital marketing agency. We use Monday.com for almost every facet of our business - from managing all of our website design and graphic design projects to Customer Relationship Management to website maintenance requests. 

I personally use Monday.com for managing all the details of our website design projects. Given that these projects have hundreds of tasks across many weeks, incorporating Monday.com into our workflow has not only made our lives easier it has also given our clients a level of confidence in being able to see the project fully planned out.

Monday.com has been a massive step forward for our team in terms of boosting efficiency and productivity. 

It provides an easy-to-use platform for us to track the many details that go into a website design project and easily house all of our communications with our clients. 

Before using Monday.com, I was using a lot of checklists and relying on email communications - which was very time-consuming. Having everything in one place so the client can easily get a global view of the project and when to expect things from our team allows us to manage more projects and ultimately earn more revenue. At this point, I wouldn't even know how to function without this tool. 

I love the automation and level of customization available for the automation. It really helps us all stay on track and on top of our deadlines.

I love the Gantt chart view which allows me to see where projects will potentially overlap or where individual team members may have too much on their plate. Monday.com allows me to see ahead and plan ahead so we can minimize frustration while maximizing our output.

I love that I can easily duplicate boards - which is a huge time saver when I'm setting up new website design projects.

I would love it if there was a way to update multiple cells at once with the same data point. For instance, if I have 20 items that all have a deadline of 3/24, I'd love to be able to update them all at one time rather than individually.

I would love to have a way to hide an entire group within a board from the client for internal conversations. This may exist; I just haven't figured it out yet if that's the case.

Honestly, those are the only two things I have run into, other than that, I have everything I need.

I've used the solution for more than two years. 

It seems very stable.

My impression is that it is highly scalable. The more you use Monday.com, the more ways you will find to use monday.com.

Anytime we have a question about Monday.com, the support team is quick to respond.

Positive

We previously used Basecamp which was also nice, however, we felt that Monday.com offered a much more robust offering that could be used across many more facets of our business.

We had previously used Asana (as a guest) on some of our client's accounts. We preferred Monday.com's interface and functionality.

I didn't personally do the setup, however, it is my understanding that it was straightforward.

The setup was handled in-house.

I could not put a number on ROI, however, I know it has improved our efficiency which allows us to take on more projects.

The money that you spend on Monday.com is well worth it. It will likely pay for itself in terms of the time it will save you.