Operations · Projects
VanVed vs monday.com
for Projects
Why businesses choose VanVed over monday.com
For a services business that already runs its CRM, HR and billing on VanVed, projects is one more switch on the same tenant — and the time logged on a task becomes a real invoice without an integration. monday.com charges per seat per product and still leaves billing outside.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | monday.com |
|---|---|---|
| Custom columns / fields on work items | Fixed schema — title, description, assignee, status, priority, dates, order | Fully custom column types; the whole product is built on them |
| Automations and integration recipes | None in the projects module | 250 actions/month on Standard, 25,000 on Pro |
| Task dependencies | Yes, with same-project and circular-chain validation enforced in both the serializer and the model | Dependency column, Standard and up |
| Time tracking | Included on every plan | Pro plan only |
| Invoice the tracked time | Native — draft invoice with one line per time entry, guarded against double-billing | Not native; needs an app or integration |
| Dashboards across projects | A portfolio strip across every project — status counts, overdue projects and tasks, unbilled time — but it is fixed, not a dashboard you compose, and there are no chart widgets | Drag-and-drop dashboard widgets combining many boards |
| Workload view | Not built | Workload widget for capacity balancing |
| Mobile app for project work | No — the Flutter app covers attendance, field service, helpdesk, visitors and HR, not projects | Full iOS/Android apps |
| Runs alongside CRM, HR, billing and inventory on one tenant | Yes — one login, one database, modules toggled per tenant | monday CRM/Dev/Service are separate paid products |
Where monday.com is ahead of us today
monday.com's entire value is configurability — custom column types, per-board views, dashboard widgets across boards, workload, and thousands of automation actions a month. VanVed's projects module has a fixed schema, a list, a board and a Gantt, one fixed portfolio strip rather than dashboards you compose, no workload, no automations and no mobile app. A team that wants to shape the tool around its own process will not get that here.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, monday.com may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Projects module does
- Projects and tasks
Break work down and track status.
- Time entries
Log time against a task; project totals roll up from entries.