monday.com Reviews

I am the manager of onboarding and support. I use Monday.com to manage all clients in the onboarding process. 

I can easily see what phase they are at in the process (through groups), see the statuses of certain parts of the OB process (through the status category), and understand what tasks have been completed and still need to be completed through the subitems. 

Monday.com also allows us to easily store all client information in one place so that the team can easily access it. I also used Monday.com for my own personal note-taking and meeting agendas.

It has improved our organization and specifically the onboarding team. It has brought a sense of organization, structure, and clarity into the department. Thanks to the clarity it provides, it has become much easier for someone to go on vacation and allow another person to pick up where they left off. 

The subitems make it crystal clear what tasks are done, in progress, or complete.

The "My Work" section allows me to filter by certain employees so I can see exactly what is on their plate for the day/week, and allows me to keep the workload balanced. 

We use the boards the most. We have one for new client onboarding, upgrade clients (existing clients that are adding an additional service that we have to get them onboarded into), and one for offboards for when a client stops working with our company.

Within the board, we rely heavily on the subitems. These allow us to easily see all the tasks that need to be completed (by either the client or our team), as well as all the tasks that are in progress or completed. We set due dates when a client first signs with us, so we rely on those to keep us on track to hit our desired timeline.

We also use statuses and automation within the boards to see a high-level view of where clients are at and to move people from one group to the next. 

It is difficult to create templates for repeat use cases. For example, I have created six different items that have unique subitems based on the service or package someone has. When a client signs, I choose the appropriate item "template" based on their package. I then have to duplicate that item and move the subitems to the new client's item that was created. Once that is done, I then have to update all the subitems within that item to assign them to the correct owners. We rotate implementation specialists and designers, so we can't have this preset. 

I've used the solution for nine months.

The stability is great.

The scalability is so-so. We reached our maximum capacity on a board very quickly. I had to duplicate the board and remove all live clients from it. I now have two boards: one for actively onboarding clients, and one for all of those that are live. 

The technical support is great. I have not reached out often, however, when I do they are responsive.

Before Monday.com we used Notion.

The initial setup is very straightforward. There are some limitations much like any solution once you get in there, however, I could do most of what I needed to do.

The product was implemented in-house.

The ROI is hard to quantify.

It's pretty straightforward. I did all the set up myself so I did not pay someone to do it for me

We also looked into Basecamp and Clickup.

We use the solution for marketing tasks. I manage our social media, photography, and videography teams. We plan out and collaborate on projects, and provide assets, branding guidelines, and resources for the team.

It's also useful for collaboration. We work in a team of about 25 people in automotive and we focus on PR and digital marketing. It's perfect for assigning tasks for events or for new releases. Our designer also communicates there with everyone.

We can use it to store resources. We connect everything through Monday. We use it to centralize as we keep some things in Dropbox and some things in Google Sheets. Now everything can be connected in the same place and we love it.

We used to use Wrike however, it didn't work on mobile and this does. I like having boards for certain items. I like that everyone can also have their own private boards if they prefer to keep their own notes 

It doesn't take long to load.

It keeps my team accountable to keep track of their tasks.

It's colorful and easy to learn to use for all types of employee positions.

I also enjoy that it is so mainstream that anyone can use it. They use it in universities as well. Most of the designers we work with and web developers are very comfortable using it too.

We like the mobile app, as well as more integrations, calendar features, and private boards. 

The mobile app is super helpful since our auto groups span four counties. 

The calendar view makes everything easy to see.

It has integrations with using all the programs we use too.

Monday is super inexpensive compared to other stuff we use.

It is very easy to maneuver around. I love the search bar feature where I can just search the entire board with the information I need. This makes it very fast and easy. 

In a dynamic workplace where we are working on several campaigns at a time, it's very important to us to have something that helps us move faster.

The tablet display is confusing and difficult to use. Most of my team works on tablets and they prefer the desktop view since it compresses some items.

For possible features maybe some more aggressive notifications - like "this comment was added and mentioned no one, would you like to see it?" Sometimes we forget to mention it and someone replied and we never saw it till we opened it up.

Notifications could be controlled by management instead of per person. I have a few employees that forget to mark off their tasks. However, if we could automate to alert them that would be better.

We need a broken link checker.

I've used the solution for a few years.

The solution is really great and reliable. It never crashed. 

The scalability is really great.

I dont know if I have ever had to use technical support due to the ease of use of the tool.

Positive

We used to use Wrike. It was very expensive. In two years it broke on us - which was terrible. We couldn't download our information off of it either so we had to start all over when we left them. 

It was very easy to set up. I taught myself and then I taught my team. 

I did the setup myself. 

The ROI has been pretty huge.

I had no problem with the pricing at all. it was less than 1/2 of what we were spending with Wrike with more functionality.

I went through reviews and more and more just kept talking about Monday.com Plus, the local university uses it and that made it easier to choose Monday.com.

I love it! i have no issues. 

I primarily use Monday as a tool to assist in the management and organization of our flood book of business across our many insurance providers. Keeping track of underwriting requests and upcoming renewals that need to be requoted, as well as big picture things for the future of the company that needs to be investigated and researched. 

Monday allows us to track who is working on what task and how long it has been active. We can see how many quotes are processed in a given time as well as how much new business is closed.

I am not a naturally organized person, and the whiteboard I used to use to keep track of my tasks was a mess. Monday has been a lifesaver in helping me to prevent things from falling through the cracks. 

The ability to better organize and execute at my job has helped me to make a better impression on my peers and supervisor and has allowed me to take an active part in the growth and expansion of the company. 

Without Monday, it would have been impossible for us to achieve the same level of success that we have recently seen.

The feature that I get the most use out of is the boards and groups that allow me to track my daily tasks and to mark which quotes or underwriting requests are top priority and which ones have been sitting the longest. 

Monday has allowed us to create a comprehensive database of all of our active policies with each carrier, the total premiums for each carrier, and each individual policy's expiration date to help us keep track of our renewals. 

Before signing on with Monday, we had no idea what the total value of our book of business was, and keeping track of renewing policies was very difficult. 

The web page can be a bit buggy at times, especially after I switch to a different tab and then come back to the Monday site after leaving it idle for a few minutes. 

Certain functions like moving tasks to different groups/boards will suddenly not actually work. The page will say "X has been moved" however it will still be sitting there on the same page where it started. Sometimes I will try to organize a group of information and the page will give an error and not allow the change to happen.

My usual response is just to refresh the page, and the issue almost always resolves itself.

I've used the solution for a little over a year.

I'm impressed with the stability.

It's very versatile and can be easily shifted to suit almost any need.

I have only had one call with support, however, they were very kind and helpful.

Positive

We did not previously have an alternative.

It was quite straight forward and there are many wonderful tutorials available to help.

The setup was all done in-house.

I don't have a quantifiable number for ROI, however, it's my understanding that it is significant. We certainly would have missed out on some business opportunities over the last year if not for Monday helping us to keep things organized.

I am the primary user of the Monday site, however, not the administrator who set it up or manages payments. I assume we are all happy though.

I was not the one who initially signed us up on Monday. I could not say what was evaluated if any.

This site has been a lifesaver. 

My team and I use Monday.com for project management, task tracking, and internal communication. Also to keep version control and go back to the latest version or a final approved version of a particular project. 

In our company we support many business units with different needs and goals, we use Monday.com to plan our strategic communications and marketing efforts such as daily tasks, product launch progress, ongoing long-term projects, or media covering tracking.

The environment is a user-friendly interface that is easy to use and learn, yet it is very powerful and available in a browser as well as in an app.

The solution has helped us keep track of our work, by helping us keep organized in an environment that is friendly and easy to navigate. The automatic notifications on tasks help for visibility at a high level and the reminders on tasks and timelines help staff keep on top of their work.

Previous to using Monday.com at another company I was using other solutions Team Gantt and even Excel documents for project management. Those solutions are not powerful enough and definitely wouldn't fit the current needs at my job right now.

The most valuable aspects of the solution include:

1. Automatic notifications
This helps us keep track of everything. In the case of leaders of a project, they can see when a change was made within a task or when a task is done. In the case of staff, they get notifications once they're assigned to a task and keep getting reminders so they don't lose sight of the task.

2. Color coding and labels
Color coding and labels help us keep the interface lively and friendly with the benefit of assigning colors to different things such as the status of a task or in our case, different business units within the company.

3. The ability to add new members and keep communication flowing.
This is crucial for us to be able to share what's happening with different members of the organization outside of our department.

Perhaps a direct interface integration with social media channels would be ideal. We use Monday to schedule our social media posts. However, once everything is approved on Monday.com, we copy and paste it to another platform and then published it on a specific social media platform. Ideally, we could just publish straight from Monday.com.

Currently, we use Falcon to schedule and publish on our social media channels, however, the whole planning and approval process takes place on Monday.com.

A social integration directly from Monday.com will take away one step and the cost of another platform.

I have been using Monday.com for just over a year now.

It is rare that we have any issues with the app or the platform itself. It has been down every once in a while but it was not alarming, I'd say the solution is very stable.

Stability is great. In a previous role, only a handful of people used Monday.com in a separate department, in this new company a larger group uses it so it can be scalable to fit the needs of any business size.

I haven't had to use customer support yet. I haven't heard anything bad about it from my colleagues.

Positive

I was using TeamGantt. I left that company and we use Monday here.

the setup was straightforward and was set up by my IT department with just a quick sign-in.

Implementation took place before my time.

I'd advise users to do the research and not always go for what's the cheapest option. Users need to look at what's the right solution for their needs.

I was not part of the choosing team.

I am impressed with the interface and the look and feel without compromising performance.

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.

The solution is used to keep track of time and effort on my job. It is also used to keep track of company projects such as event planning, social media planning, and to-do lists for everyday tasks. 

It's also a great way to stand up to an audit as we are funded by the US Department of Education. I find it to be very helpful in helping me see what my staff is up to on a daily basis and account for what was done and not done in the event of an issue with my boss. Our environment is very fast-paced and there is a lot to do all the time so Monday provides a quick solution. 

It provides us with an easy way to keep up with company projects and keep track of what each employee is doing. It's an awesome tool for us as all supervisors are able to look at their employee's work and account for the time that was used with our boss. 

It also does a great job with adding new features that have made our jobs easier such as giving us the option to upload files and pictures and it's super nice that they allow us to post gifs and bring a fun feel to our workspaces. 

The board function allows you to create a digitized to-do list. My agency plans a lot of events - from college tours to large back to school events, to large community events. Being able to keep up with all the different moving parts and keeping it all In one once place is really helpful for me. There is no way I was able to pull off our back to school fest with over 500+ people if it had not been for being able to create a list of tasks and go through one by one and keep track of progress on each task in relation to that event. 

They have glitches every once in a while that will put employers in a position to not be able to use the platform. 

A few weeks ago, Monday.com wouldn't even come up, and on a normal day that poses a huge problem as we use this platform to ensure that employees are working on a daily basis. 

When you're not able to do that, that is a problem. I had to tell employees to record their work through email and that just creates a bunch of extra steps as opposed to logging on to Monday. I do not like this as it happened more than once. 

I've used Monday for about four years.

The stability is great.

The scalability is very good.

They offer very good customer support. 

Positive

I do not know if a previous solution was used. 

The set up was fairly easy. 

We implemented one-on-one with the company. 

Our ROI is very high.

I am not in on that process of licensing, therefore, I can speak to this question. 

We did not look into other options. 

I just want all the tech kinks to be worked out. It is an awesome platform. 

Monday.com is my main organizer for all my video production projects, film distribution projects, future project research, and brainstorming sandboxes. I sometimes use it for social media management as well. It's great for intern management and task liability/tracking.   

I'm also currently using it to review an opening animation for a TV series I'm directing/editing. It's great due to the fact that the Illustrator and I can comment on individual shots and portions of the sequence all separately but under one umbrella as well. It would be a nightmare doing it via email and such.

I first got it to keep track of the equivalent of sales leads, which in the film distribution world was keeping track of each company, org, person, etc. who wanted to purchase a group/community screening. Tracking what point in the process we were, keeping track of each step of communication via email ports, facilitating what stage in the process, etc. 

Now, it's expanded 5X in other areas. 

Integration with things like Gmail makes tracking leads of possible screening organizations and our communications so much more streamlined.

Creating super-smart to-do lists, intern management, and sales leads lists has been huge. Organizing all the brainstorming and pre-production aspects of a proposed or actual new project, web design stuff for my nonprofit, and film festival entrances (the list goes on) is easy. All of the individual features, integrations, automations, and customization makes it amazing. It also helps keep things organized much better for my team members as well across a variety of different production-related tasks.

The only thing I'd adjust is this little tiny user interface thing. And that's if I'm being super nitpicky. As far as I know, when I make a new entry on a Board, and I'm putting in the first piece of information, you can't just hit return or tab to the next element. It clicks off on the screen somewhere and clicks back. i.e. Enter Name, but then you finish, and if the next option is Status of Conversation you have to click off and then click it to edit it. 

I've been using the solution for two years and running!

I've never had any technical issues whatsoever.

It scales as broadly as needed.

I haven't needed much experience with support, however, when I do need them, it's timely.

Positive

I tried Asana and didn't like it. I use Google Drive for a lot of things (storage of video, image assets, and file management), however, there was a gap missing that Monday makes a lot easier.

They have a library of training videos and offer free phone/web consultations, as well as webinars. That's plenty for me.

I set it up in-house.

I'd advise others to look at the options and see what works for you. That's personal to your projects, budget, etc.

I looked into Asana. I tried one other one, however, I can't remember which. I have some other tools I integrate with it like Hootsuite and Squarespace.

I'm not sure what I'd do without Monday.com at this point.

I work as a website developer. That includes client-based work. Monday makes it easier for a client-facing team to get information from the client and put it somewhere we can all see it. 

It's then easy for them to assign me to a task where I can provide constant updates to the client's team on the progress of the task. I can also use it for scoping out new website builds, laying out each task I'd need to complete for the overall project, and providing time estimates for each individual task I've created. 

The main improvement Monday has provided is keeping all of the tasks across our boards organized and up to date. By using Monday I can easily see what work needs to be completed still, what work still needs a time estimate and what work needs feedback on it.

It allows our organization to easily keep all information about a single task in one place, and allows us to easily bring in other team members where necessary who can see a full history of the ongoing task so they are fully up to date on it's progress.

I really enjoy all the additional columns you can add to your Monday pulses to cater to what information you need. For example, in my line of work, I do a lot of time scoping and estimating how long a job will take me. By using a column to put in estimates it's easily visible and speeds up my workflow when scoping out loads of tasks for a new project. 

I also like how easy it is to assign different people to the pulses. It allows me to easily look at a board and spot my profile icon to know which pulses I should be looking at. 

I would enjoy my own personal board on Monday that only I can see. This board could then populate with all the tasks I've been assigned across every board on Monday so that it's all in one place and I'm not constantly switching between different boards for all my assigned tasks. 

I'd also love improvements to the notification and inbox section of Monday, as I find if my notifications or inbox ever start to fill up from lots of tagging there's no easy solution to mass clear these and I instead have to individually click through each one. 

I've used the solution for one year.

I've had problems over the year where Monday has gone offline and wouldn't load, or wouldn't let me upload images to my pulses. 

It's really good for my line of work where you have many different clients. It allows us to split them into their own boards and stay organized. 

I've never had to contact customer service.

Positive

This was the only platform I've used.

The initial setup is straightforward. 

I'm not sure if an outside vendor was used. 

I'm unsure of my ROI. 

This isn't something I directly deal with.

This was the platform my company chose.