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.
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monday.com
Salesforce 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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Salesforce Starter
Free Trial
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Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
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Additional Details
Yearly plan: Save 18%
Monthly plan also available
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Salesforce Starter
Features
monday.com
Salesforce Starter
Project Management
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monday.com
8.9
Ratings
15% above category average
Salesforce Starter
-
Ratings
Task Management
9.50 Ratings
00 Ratings
Resource Management
9.30 Ratings
00 Ratings
Gantt Charts
8.40 Ratings
00 Ratings
Scheduling
8.60 Ratings
00 Ratings
Workflow Automation
9.60 Ratings
00 Ratings
Team Collaboration
9.40 Ratings
00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology
8.80 Ratings
00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology
7.00 Ratings
00 Ratings
Document Management
8.50 Ratings
00 Ratings
Email integration
9.40 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile Access
8.60 Ratings
00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking
9.10 Ratings
00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management
9.60 Ratings
00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management
9.20 Ratings
00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
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monday.com
9.8
Ratings
26% above category average
Salesforce Starter
-
Ratings
Quotes/estimates
9.90 Ratings
00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting
9.80 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software
9.80 Ratings
00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
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monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.0
Ratings
15% above category average
Customer data management / contact management
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Territory management
00 Ratings
8.60 Ratings
Opportunity management
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Quote & order management
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Interaction tracking
00 Ratings
7.80 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management
00 Ratings
9.40 Ratings
Marketing Automation
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monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.8
Ratings
15% above category average
Lead management
00 Ratings
8.80 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 management
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management
00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Reporting
00 Ratings
9.40 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
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monday.com
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Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.0
Ratings
17% above category average
Forecasting
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Pipeline visualization
00 Ratings
8.60 Ratings
Customizable reports
00 Ratings
9.40 Ratings
Customization
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monday.com
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Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.9
Ratings
17% above category average
Custom fields
00 Ratings
9.40 Ratings
Custom objects
00 Ratings
9.40 Ratings
Scripting environment
00 Ratings
7.80 Ratings
API for custom integration
00 Ratings
8.80 Ratings
Security
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monday.com
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Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.4
Ratings
12% above category average
Single sign-on capability
00 Ratings
9.40 Ratings
Role-based user permissions
00 Ratings
9.40 Ratings
Social CRM
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monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.1
Ratings
10% above category average
Social engagement
00 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
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monday.com
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.3
Ratings
12% above category average
Marketing automation
00 Ratings
8.60 Ratings
Compensation management
00 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Platform
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?")
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.