monday.com vs. Salesforce Starter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
monday.com
Score 8.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
monday.com Work OS is an open platform designed so that anyone can create the tools they need to run all aspects of their work. It includes ready-made templates or the ability to customize any work solution ranging from sales pipelines to marketing campaigns, CRMs, and project tracking.
$12
per month per user
Salesforce Starter
Score 8.9 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Salesforce Starter (formerly Salesforce Essentials) is a small business CRM that replaces the former SalesforceIQ product. It is priced at $35 per user, on a monthly basis, or at $25 per month for if billed annually ($300) and can be tried free for 14 days on a trial.N/A
Pricing
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Editions & Modules
Basic
$12
per month per user
Standard
$14
per month per user
Pro
$24
per month per user
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsYearly plan: Save 18% Monthly plan also available
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Community Pulse
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Considered Both Products
monday.com
Chose monday.com
It's been a while since trying Asana, so it's hard to say. I think they are very similar from what I remember, but maybe monday.com has more reporting and customization possibilities?
Chose monday.com
monday.com offer much of the standard tools and seems to be ever evolving. They seem to take feedback and constantly upgrade the tools. If all the tools are there, the differentiating factor might be the cost, any integrations you may need, and the visual "chemistry". To me, …
Chose monday.com
We chose to move from Zoho to monday.com when our company started growing exponentially. Overall, our team was thankful for the change because we were growing at far to fast of a speed for Zoho's tools to keep up with us. monday.com is a better, beefier platform with far better …
Chose monday.com
We decided to go with monday.com because they offered a free tier for nonprofits and because they are easier to use and offered additional features that we could not find on the other choices. Hands down, there was no better choice for us than monday.com.
Chose monday.com
When I arrived at my org, I was initially disappointed to hear that we used something other than Asana for project management. Fast forward just a few months, and I became a complete monday.com convert. While its organization is similar to Asana's, it's user interface, …
Chose monday.com
We use Jira, Confluence, Miro and the full Salesforce stack and it's very reliable as are the other softwares.
Chose monday.com
I would say this is one of my least favorite applications. I don't find it super user friendly due to the extreme amounts of customization. It feels like my information is in there somewhere, but I can never find it easily. I think that it looks a lot prettier than asana which …
Chose monday.com
monday.com seems to solve the issues and concerns for our marketing and graphics needs. I personally use Asana for my projects and tracking purposes and monday.com for my interations with Marketing and their needs.
Chose monday.com
monday.com is much easier to use and offers all the tools of google suite in one spot for task management. I use gsuite services still but in an entirely different way. If there is something that needs to be shared with the team or is important that I will need to refer back to …
Chose monday.com
Monday.com is the broadest scope work management software I have used. Its interface is basic and takes some getting used to, but the programming options are highly advanced and extremely effective.
Chose monday.com
I also use the other selected. But I prefer monday.com because it is more clear (visually and intuitively), and also because I have been using it for longer than the others. However, there is the price factor that must be taken into consideration
Chose monday.com
Monday.com is far more intuitive than Salesforce with it's automation features, lists are better and customizable and it makes things easier for everyone on the team.

Salesforces is a great CRM system but I feel as though it falls short as a collaborative project management …
Chose monday.com
As a developer, I have utilized the mentioned apps to integrate processes for clients, and I have found monday.com to be superior due to its abundance of features compared to others. Choosing monday.com provides enough capabilities for teams and managers to handle work in one …
Chose monday.com
monday.com is a much better tool for keeping track of tasks and assignments than MS Planner. In most situations where we used MS Planner we have switched to using monday.com instead.
Chose monday.com
The best aspect of monday.com in my opinion is the Visual Based Data Representation(s)
Chose monday.com
monday.com is so much easier to use & project-tracking is not only easy to do, but the visuals are far from complicated & make it that much easier to keep track of everything.
Chose monday.com
I feel monday.com is easier to use than the others listed. Specifically, I used to use Trello in the past and I really liked it. I even recommended others to use it but since working in monday.com, I found it has so many more features that meet our teams needs and we have found …
Chose monday.com
monday.com has the only interface that is 100% customizable, can use public and private boards, can be shared with customers, produce Gantt charts, and has THE MOST integrations "in house". The professional relationships that monday.com has established to be "on board" with …
Chose monday.com
I searched for some other alternatives like monday.com, and I also tried them. For example, I have experience with Sloneek. But monday.com just feels different. I think it beats the competition in every way. You can also use monday's free version, and it is still a good task …
Chose monday.com
I chose monday.com because of its flexibility and ability to adapt to our needs. Throughout our work, I've seen how it helps us increase productivity and efficiency, which solidified my decision.
Chose monday.com
Compared to the competition, monday.com has better control, more possibilities for use, and the price is very acceptable.
Chose monday.com
The easy of use and configuration is where monday.com has had an advantage. The ability for all our users to startup on the platform has helped to incorporate it into our enterprise environment quickly.
Chose monday.com
Actually, monday.com and Trello, although they are digital board systems, are both very different from each other. Trello is a simpler system that, although its function is also the organization of tasks, its visual system gradually overwhelms the user by "piling up" each post …
Chose monday.com
monday.com is simpler and easier to grasp, apply and navigate than Clickup, but the Clickup free version has so much more functionality available than the monday.com free / low-cost options (sorry, but it's true!).
Google tasks is really simple and I shouldn't really compare …
Salesforce Starter
Chose Salesforce Starter
The Zoho system is free and gives a long trial product. The salesforce brand is well known, and I wanted to try a good European crm product. The account manager was South African and very friendly. The system was trained on a demo, whereas Zoho did not offer an account …
Chose Salesforce Starter
more expensive but as an industry leader and go, the learning curve pays for itself in ROI in lost time in onboarding
Chose Salesforce Starter
Salesforce Starter is exactly what it says. It's specific to getting a small business up and running effectively, without unnecessary development or internal overhead required. It doesn't allow for a ton of customization, but it provides more than most other providers across …
Chose Salesforce Starter
We selected SalesforceIQ over insightly because of the email automation they offered. Their app also seemed to be a little more robust. I highly recommend a trial before you make a decision. The trial with SalesforceIQ is what sold us on the product.
Features
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
8.9
Ratings
15% above category average
Salesforce Starter
-
Ratings
Task Management9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
9.8
Ratings
26% above category average
Salesforce Starter
-
Ratings
Quotes/estimates9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting9.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software9.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.0
Ratings
15% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.8
Ratings
15% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.8
Ratings
15% above category average
Task management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.0
Ratings
17% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.9
Ratings
17% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.4
Ratings
12% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.1
Ratings
10% above category average
Social engagement00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.3
Ratings
12% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.6
Ratings
16% above category average
Mobile access00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
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User Ratings
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.6
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.5
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
6.9
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
monday.comSalesforce Starter
Likelihood to Recommend
Here, I will suggest that it is best to create employees, clients, or project reports. Easy to track with the dashboards. I did many integrations and developments. I can not list each of them here. I will say the best tool for management. I couldn't see criteria of unsuitable. But yes It will depend on the client's requirements. I will suggest it as very user-friendly tool for CEOs, CTOs, Managers, and company owners also for team.
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SalesforceIQ is a perfect CRM to start with and get your organization used to tracking customer contact. It was an easy setup and well adopted. It allowed us to rollout completely in just 30 days. We have seen a large increase in our ability to communicate. It may be lacking in some items if you already have a tracking method but was the perfect starting point for us.
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Pros
  • Set stages for each task and assign people to those stages to move projects along
  • Set up automated tasks to get assigned to people and to send out notifications to Slack as well as emails to contractors to work on a project
  • Create multiple boards for projects and the ability to review tasks by date to make sure no project slips through the cracks
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  • Sales CRM with built-in guidance and reminders to manage and track opportunities.
  • Self-service for customers and internal employee needs. Integrates forms and chatbots very easily into your existing website.
  • Guided setup with inherent flows to make transitioning from legacy systems to new age cloud-based technologies
  • Integrates with Outlook and Gmail extremely well. Includes the Salesforce Inbox mobile app to link records with calendar and email. Email reminders included automatically.
  • The Salesforce Mobile App comes with Starter, making it super easy to work on the go, even in remote areas.
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Cons
  • Ensuring I have set up a Private board vs public board is not clear - it would be useful to have an additional alert when creating a board as I work with sensitive information. It will eventually be used in a team based environment but while I test the boards, they needs to be private.
  • Time tracking is clumsy, could be easier to record
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  • Table views can be sorted by column. Filters can be applied, but only to one column. Multi-column filtering like Excel allows would be extremely useful and a big improvement.
  • The ability to quick copy data in a table view would also be helpful, like (ctrl ') in excel.
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Likelihood to Renew
Teams involved in content creation, such as marketing or editorial teams, could use monday.com to manage the entire content lifecycle. Boards might track content ideas, assignments, drafts, reviews, approvals, and publication schedules, helping teams collaborate and keep content production on track.
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Usability
It's straightforward to use and simple to understand. They have tutorials on different elements of the system that you can learn. The workflow there is very intuitive, drag and drop, which doesn't require a learning curve for most people. Templates that also make things more accessible can be found.
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easy to use, training is intuitive and can be peer taught if needed. Not overly complex so that users can get started within a very short period of time.
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Reliability and Availability
There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
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Performance
Everything performs fairly well. Every now and then there are user errors where an employee will not click "ok" on a note they've created and simply exit out (I do wish that something was in place to prevent this, such as a pop "are you finished?")
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Support Rating
monday.com only really care about accounts that have 20 seats or more. While this is great for monday.com, it pushes smaller organisations to evaluate alternatives. We rate monday.com highly in our organisation because key staff have already got good experience with the application and we know we will get to 20+ seats one day. But, till then the billing model and lack of permanent enterprise features is a dread.
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Online Training
To have someone walk you thru the features and capabilities of Monday.com is priceless. Someone also coming along later in the contract to see if you are maximizing the program to suit your company needs is beyond helpful. The staff that have provided this training are fun, creative and very patient.
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Implementation Rating
We signed up for the accounts. Created the accounts. Ran the trial version and tested it live while we were running multiple projects and found that it was fitting our needs perfectly. When the trial ended and we were asked to purchase the full version, we did. We have found other ways to use it and it's a breeze.
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Alternatives Considered
We decided to go with monday.com because they offered a free tier for nonprofits and because they are easier to use and offered additional features that we could not find on the other choices. Hands down, there was no better choice for us than monday.com.
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Salesforce Starter is exactly what it says. It's specific to getting a small business up and running effectively, without unnecessary development or internal overhead required. It doesn't allow for a ton of customization, but it provides more than most other providers across sales, service, and integration/automating business processes. Some tools are more specific to organizations that want to focus on a specific area to grow or manage their business. That's where the other package types and integrations with specific tools come in
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Scalability
For it to work across multiple departments and sites, I would like to see improvements made with integrations and automation. For this question, I am acknowledging not only the addition of internal triggers/automation, but also an expansion on external ones.
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Return on Investment
  • By using monday.com as an enablement tool for templated onboarding plans, we have been able to begin calculating the number of manager hours saved through our work (not defined yet).
  • monday.com's reporting tools also allow us to more easily report on the productivity and output of our team since we keep up with all projects and subitems in monday.com.
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  • It made the job more efficient for staff so they can spend time doing other tasks rather than configuring and maintaining Salesforce Starter.
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ScreenShots

monday.com Screenshots

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