Project Management migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Kantree and monday Work Management. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in monday Work Management.
Kantree
Source
monday Work Management
Destination
Compatibility
9 of 14
objects map 1:1 between Kantree and monday Work Management.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Moving from Kantree to monday.com is a structural migration that reshapes how work is organized. Kantree uses a workspace-centric model with Cards as arbitrary business objects and KQL-powered conditional logic that runs across the entire workspace. monday.com uses a board-centric model with Items as the primary work unit and column-based automations scoped per board. The most significant migration decision is how to handle Kantree's cross-card relationship links, which have no direct monday.com equivalent and must be modeled as item dependencies, subitems, or column-based links. We extract card-type schemas (including formula field definitions and last-known computed values), workspace-level custom field definitions, and KQL-based automation triggers and translate them into written board-building instructions for monday.com's admin. Automations do not migrate as code; we deliver a written inventory of every Kantree automation rule with a recommended monday.com automation equivalent. Attachment files are re-uploaded from Kantree's storage to monday.com's file storage layer.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
Why teams make this switch
Leaving
What's pushing teams away
Choosing
What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a Kantree object lands in monday Work Management, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Kantree
Workspace
monday Work Management
Workspace
1:1Kantree Workspaces map directly to monday.com Workspaces as the top-level container. We preserve workspace-level settings including color themes, default notification preferences, and member rosters. Each monday.com Workspace is created before any child Boards to ensure the workspace context is established for board-level permissions.
Kantree
Project
monday Work Management
Board
1:1Kantree Projects map to monday.com Boards with board type preserved (Standard, Shareable, Private). Project metadata including description, status, and dates migrate as board-level fields. Groups (columns) inside a Kantree Project map to monday.com Groups. Project-level custom fields that are not card-specific become board-level columns.
Kantree
Card
monday Work Management
Item
1:1Kantree Cards map 1:1 to monday.com Items. All standard card fields (title, description, assignees, dates, status) migrate directly. Card-level custom field values map to monday.com column values with type equivalence applied: Kantree single-select becomes monday.com Status or Dropdown; multi-select becomes monday.com Tags; date fields become monday.com Date columns; user references become monday.com People columns.
Kantree
Card Type
monday Work Management
Board Structure / Item Type
lossyKantree card types (Bug, Feature, Invoice, Patient, etc.) define the field schema per card category. monday.com does not have a native card-type equivalent at the workspace level; we model card types as named board templates or as sub-board structures where each card type gets its own board. We export the full card-type schema including field names, types, and validation rules and deliver a written board-design guide mapping each card type to a monday.com board configuration.
Kantree
Custom Fields
monday Work Management
Columns
1:1Kantree's 20+ field types map to monday.com column types with type equivalence: text to Text, number to Numbers, date to Date, rating to Numbers (1-5), single-select to Dropdown or Status, multi-select to Tags, user reference to People, card reference to Link to Item, and formula to Formula (Pro tier) or static Numbers column. Formula fields are exported with their last-known computed values as static columns at migration time; the customer chooses whether to rebuild as monday.com Formula columns post-migration.
Kantree
Formula Fields
monday Work Management
Formula Columns or Static Numbers
lossyKantree formula fields compute dynamically from related field values at read time. We export the formula definition and the last-known computed value as a static Numbers column at migration time. On monday.com Pro ($19/seat) and Enterprise, we can recreate formula logic using monday.com's Formula column type. On Standard ($12/seat), formulas are not available and the migrated static value remains as a Numbers column.
Kantree
Views (7 types)
monday Work Management
Views
1:1Kantree's seven native views (Kanban, Table, Matrix, List, Timeline, Calendar, Gantt) map to monday.com equivalents: Kanban to Board view, Table to Table view, List to Group view, Timeline to Timeline view, Calendar to Calendar view, Gantt to Dashboards (Gantt widget), and Matrix to Table view with grouping. We export view definitions including filters, sort orders, and visible field selections as written board-configuration instructions because view definitions are not fully accessible via monday.com API.
Kantree
Automations
monday Work Management
Automations
lossyKantree KQL-powered automations (triggers, conditional branches, action chains) do not migrate as executable code. We extract every automation rule with its trigger events, KQL conditions, and action chain steps and deliver a written automation inventory that maps each Kantree automation to a monday.com automation recipe. monday.com Standard ($12/seat) includes 250 automations/month; Pro ($19/seat) includes 25,000. Automations relying on cross-card KQL queries may require restructuring as board-level triggers.
Kantree
Relationships
monday Work Management
Dependencies or Subitems
1:manyKantree supports one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many card relationships defined at the workspace level. monday.com does not have a native cross-board relationship model. We resolve relationships using a combination of monday.com's Dependencies column (for hierarchical parent-child), Subitems (for one-to-many child items within a board), and Link to Item columns (for lateral cross-board references). The relationship type is preserved in a text column on the destination item.
Kantree
Comments
monday Work Management
Updates
1:1Kantree Comments migrate to monday.com Updates. Author, timestamp, and 2-hour editable window are preserved. Rich text content transfers as-is. Comments from users who do not have monday.com accounts are migrated with author name preserved but linked to a migration-system account pending user provisioning.
Kantree
Attachments
monday Work Management
Files
1:1Kantree attachments (files uploaded via drag-and-drop or image toolbar) are downloaded from Kantree's storage layer with their original filenames, MIME types, and upload timestamps preserved. Files are re-uploaded to monday.com's file storage as Items are created, with the attachment linked to the correct Item via the Files column.
Kantree
Users / Members
monday Work Management
Team Members
1:1Kantree organization members (billable) map to monday.com team members with email as the dedupe key. Project-level observers (free in Kantree) map to monday.com Guests if the destination plan includes guest access (Standard+). The migration flags any Kantree member who was granted edit access by converting a guest to a full member, since that account carries a licensing cost that was previously avoided.
Kantree
Roles and Permissions
monday Work Management
Permissions
lossyKantree workspace and project-level role definitions (card edit, comment moderation, field visibility, view sharing) map to monday.com workspace-level permissions and board-level sharing settings. monday.com's permission model is less granular than Kantree's field-level visibility controls; we deliver a written permission-mapping document noting any capability gaps where a Kantree field-level restriction cannot be reproduced in monday.com's model.
Kantree
Forms
monday Work Management
Forms
1:1Kantree public-facing Forms that create cards on submission export form definitions and optionally submission records. monday.com Forms are available on Standard ($12/seat) and above. We map Kantree form field labels to monday.com Form question text and migrate form submission records as Items created on the target board with submission timestamp preserved.
| Kantree | monday Work Management | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workspace | Workspace1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Project | Board1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Card | Item1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Card Type | Board Structure / Item Typelossy | Fully supported | |
| Custom Fields | Columns1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Formula Fields | Formula Columns or Static Numberslossy | Fully supported | |
| Views (7 types) | Views1:1 | Not supported | |
| Automations | Automationslossy | Mapping required | |
| Relationships | Dependencies or Subitems1:many | Mapping required | |
| Comments | Updates1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Attachments | Files1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Users / Members | Team Members1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Roles and Permissions | Permissionslossy | Mapping required | |
| Forms | Forms1:1 | Mapping required |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
Kantree gotchas
Automation chain actions may carry metadata on card creation
Guest users inflate paid seat count if not managed
Formula fields compute at read time, not as stored values
Workspace copy does not fully replicate automation sub-sequences
Annual billing locks cancellation until year-end
monday Work Management gotchas
Subitems have no bulk export endpoint
API complexity budget constrains query depth
Daily call limits vary sharply across plan tiers
Automation and integration rules do not export via API
Saved views are not exposed via API
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and scoping
We audit the source Kantree workspace across workspace count, project count, card volume, card-type schemas, custom field definitions (including formula fields), active automation rules, relationship types, attachment volume, and user roster with member/observer classification. We pair this with a monday.com edition decision: Standard ($12/seat) for teams needing basic automations and multiple views; Pro ($19/seat) for teams with formula field recomputation requirements or complex dependency tracking; Enterprise for SSO, HIPAA compliance, or multi-level permissions. The discovery output is a written migration scope document with workspace-to-board mapping and a monday.com edition recommendation.
Schema translation and board design
We translate Kantree's card-type schemas into monday.com board configurations. Each card type becomes a named board or a board with grouped item types. Custom field definitions map to typed monday.com columns with field labels preserved. Formula field definitions are extracted and paired with last-known computed values for static migration or formula column recreation on Pro. Relationship types are classified as hierarchical (mapped to Dependencies) or lateral (mapped to Link to Item columns). We deliver a written board-design document for the customer's monday.com admin to build before data migration begins.
User provisioning and seat mapping
We extract the Kantree user roster and classify each account by type: organization members (billable), project observers (free), and external guests (read-only). We match by email against the monday.com destination workspace's member list. Observers and guests without monday.com accounts are flagged for provisioning as Guests (Standard+) or as full members. Any Kantree account that was upgraded from guest to member to grant edit access is flagged as a potential seat-inflation issue at the destination.
Board creation and column configuration
We create monday.com boards based on the board-design document, configuring columns with the correct types, setting up Groups that correspond to Kantree project groups, and enabling the appropriate views per board. Board sharing settings are configured based on the Kantree project-level permission matrix. This step runs in parallel with user provisioning so that board owners are assigned before items are imported.
Card migration in dependency order
We migrate Cards in two passes. First pass creates all Items without relationship links, populating standard fields (title, description, assignees, dates, status) and all column values including formula-derived static numbers. Second pass resolves relationship links using the dependency map and Link-to-Item columns created during schema translation. Attachments are downloaded from Kantree and re-uploaded per item. Comments (Updates) migrate with author and timestamp preserved. Each pass emits a row-count reconciliation report.
Cutover, validation, and automation handoff
We freeze Kantree writes during cutover, run a final delta migration of any items modified during the migration window, then hand off monday.com as the system of record. We deliver the automation inventory document mapping each Kantree KQL automation to a monday.com automation recipe. We support a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues. We do not rebuild Kantree automations as monday.com automations inside the migration scope; that work is documented separately for the customer's admin to execute.
Platform deep dives
Kantree
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
monday Work Management
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard Project Management migration. 3 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Kantree and monday Work Management.
Object compatibility
3 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
Kantree: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Kantree doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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