Project Management migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Tidy Build and monday Work Management. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in monday Work Management.
Tidy Build
Source
monday Work Management
Destination
Compatibility
10 of 12
objects map 1:1 between Tidy Build and monday Work Management.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
4-6 weeks
Overview
Moving from Tidy Build to monday.com is a domain shift from construction-specific job costing to general work management. Tidy Build's purpose-built model for materials, labour rates, and expenses against Projects has no direct monday.com equivalent; we reconstruct it using monday.com Boards as project containers, custom columns for cost-centre and pricing-level data, and Group-level scoping for sub-projects and phases. Quotes migrate as Items on a dedicated Board with status columns tracking the lifecycle from draft through approved or lost. Material Items and Supplier records map to Items on separate Boards linked via monday.com's Connect Column or a manual cross-reference maintained by the admin. Times and Expenses migrate as Items with date, duration, and cost columns linked to the parent Project Board via Lookups. Tidy Build automations and custom field configurations do not migrate as code; we deliver a written inventory of every active workflow and its monday.com automation equivalent for the customer's admin to rebuild. The Tidy Build API must be activated per-organisation before scoping begins, and rate limits are undocumented, requiring a low-concurrency probe at scoping to size migration threads.
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 Tidy Build 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.
Tidy Build
Project
monday Work Management
Board (primary container)
1:1Tidy Build Projects map to monday.com Boards. Project status, project group, cost centres, and budget metadata migrate into custom columns on the Board. We use the monday.com Boards API to create the Board with the correct workspace and subscribe the relevant Team Members. Sub-projects and phases within a Tidy Build Project map to Groups within the Board. The Board description carries the original Tidy Build cost-centre identifier for traceability.
Tidy Build
Quote
monday Work Management
Item on a Quotes Board
1:1Tidy Build Quotes migrate as Items on a dedicated Quotes Board. Quote lifecycle state (draft, sent, approved, lost) maps to a Status column with labels matched to the original Tidy Build state values. Line items migrate as sub-items with product name, quantity, unit, and price columns. Quote total and tax calculations migrate to number columns. We preserve the Quote's linked Project as a Board Relation column pointing back to the Project Board.
Tidy Build
Customer
monday Work Management
Item on a Contacts Board (or native Contacts integration)
1:1Tidy Build Customers migrate as Items on a Contacts Board. Contact name, phone, email, and billing address fields map to typed monday.com columns. Customer-specific material pricing tiers from Tidy Build migrate as custom number columns on the Item. If the customer uses monday.com's native Contacts integration, we map to that instead and preserve the pricing tier data as a custom field.
Tidy Build
Supplier
monday Work Management
Item on a Suppliers Board
1:1Tidy Build Suppliers migrate as Items on a Suppliers Board. Supplier contact name, company, phone, and email map to typed columns. Supplier notes and payment terms migrate as text columns. We preserve the link between Supplier Items and associated Material Items via a Connect Column so that procurement relationships are visible in monday.com without a custom integration.
Tidy Build
Material Item
monday Work Management
Item on a Materials Board
1:1Tidy Build Material Items migrate as Items on a Materials Board. Material name, category, unit, and location hierarchy migrate to columns. Multi-level pricing tiers (e.g. Level 1, Level 2, Level 3) migrate as separate number columns named by tier. Cost history migrates as a text column with date-stamped entries if the destination needs audit traceability. Material Supplier links use a Connect Column pointing to the Supplier Board Item.
Tidy Build
Task and Subtask
monday Work Management
Item and Sub-item
1:1Tidy Build Tasks map to Items on the Project Board (or a dedicated Tasks Board linked by a Board Relation column). Subtasks map to Sub-items attached to the parent Item. Task status, assignees, and due dates migrate to Status, Person, and Date columns respectively. Task Assignments linking Tasks to Tidy Build Users preserve as Person column assignments on the monday.com Item. Subtask structure is maintained as sub-item nesting so that task hierarchies are preserved in the destination.
Tidy Build
Times (Time Entries)
monday Work Management
Item on a Time Tracking Board with custom columns
1:1Tidy Build Time Entries link to Projects, Users, and optionally Tasks. We migrate each Time Entry as an Item on a Time Tracking Board with date, duration (as a number column in hours or minutes), and charge-rate columns. A Board Relation column links the Time Entry Item to the parent Project Board Item. Assignee maps to a Person column. If the destination monday.com plan includes the native Time Tracking column, we use that; otherwise we use custom number columns for duration and rate.
Tidy Build
Expenses
monday Work Management
Item on an Expenses Board with custom columns
1:1Tidy Build Expenses migrate as Items on an Expenses Board. Expense amount, category (Expense Type), date, and description migrate to typed columns. A Board Relation column links to the parent Project Board Item. Receipt or attachment files from Tidy Build migrate as file uploads attached to the monday.com Item via the Files API. Open/closed status from Tidy Build maps to a Status column with labels matched to the original values.
Tidy Build
Purchase Order
monday Work Management
Item on a Purchase Orders Board
1:1Tidy Build Purchase Orders migrate as Items on a Purchase Orders Board. Supplier reference, line items (as sub-items), quantities, and approval status migrate to typed columns. Approval status maps to a Status column with labels (e.g. pending, approved, rejected). A Connect Column links the PO Item to the associated Supplier Item on the Suppliers Board. PO open/closed status migrates as a Status column label set.
Tidy Build
User
monday Work Management
Team Member (Workspace member)
lossyTidy Build Users migrate as monday.com Workspace members invited to the relevant boards. The Tidy Manager versus Team user role designation is preserved as a custom text column on a User Info Board or as a tag on each user's profile. monday.com does not have a native Manager/Team role distinction, so the access model is reconstructed using monday.com Workspace permissions (full member, viewer) and board-level permission tiers. The customer's admin sets these post-migration.
Tidy Build
Sales Record
monday Work Management
Item on a Sales Board with Project linkage
1:1Tidy Build Sales records aggregate invoiced work against a Project. We migrate Sales as Items on a Sales Board with amount, line items (as sub-items), and date columns. A Board Relation column links each Sales Item to the associated Project Board Item. If monday.com's CRM product is in use, Sales records can alternatively map to Deal items with custom columns carrying the construction-specific billing data.
Tidy Build
Custom Fields
monday Work Management
Custom Columns
lossyTidy Build custom fields on Projects and Materials are detected via the API schema during scoping. Each custom field maps to a typed monday.com column: text fields to Text Column, number fields to Number Column, date fields to Date Column, and dropdown fields to Status Column with the values set as labels. Custom field type constraints (e.g. minimum/maximum values) are noted in the migration inventory for the customer to configure post-migration in monday.com's column settings.
| Tidy Build | monday Work Management | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project | Board (primary container)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Quote | Item on a Quotes Board1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Customer | Item on a Contacts Board (or native Contacts integration)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Supplier | Item on a Suppliers Board1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Material Item | Item on a Materials Board1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Task and Subtask | Item and Sub-item1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Times (Time Entries) | Item on a Time Tracking Board with custom columns1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Expenses | Item on an Expenses Board with custom columns1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Purchase Order | Item on a Purchase Orders Board1:1 | Fully supported | |
| User | Team Member (Workspace member)lossy | Fully supported | |
| Sales Record | Item on a Sales Board with Project linkage1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Fields | Custom Columnslossy | 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.
Tidy Build gotchas
API must be enabled per organisation before migration
User-role tier limits affect migration scoping
No publicly documented API rate limits for bulk extraction
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
Pre-migration audit and API activation
We audit the source Tidy Build account across all supported objects: Projects with cost centres and budget metadata, Quotes with line items and lifecycle state, Customers and Suppliers with contact and address records, Material Items with pricing levels and location hierarchies, Tasks with Subtasks and Assignments, Times and Expenses with project linkage, Purchase Orders with supplier references and approval status, and Sales records. We also detect custom field definitions via the API schema. We confirm that the Tidy Build API is active for the organisation and request activation with Tidy International if it is not. We run a low-concurrency API probe to detect throttling behaviour and size the extraction thread pool. The audit output is a written scope document listing record counts per object, custom field inventory, and any data-quality flags (duplicate Customers, orphaned Supplier links) requiring customer resolution before migration.
monday.com board architecture design
We design the monday.com board structure to mirror Tidy Build's data hierarchy. The primary Project Board is created first, scoped to the relevant Workspace. We configure custom columns matching Tidy Build's field schema (cost centre, budget, project group, status). The Quotes Board is created as a separate Board with a Board Relation column linking back to Project. Materials, Suppliers, and Purchase Orders each get their own Board with Connect Columns linking Materials to Suppliers and Purchase Orders to Suppliers. Time Tracking and Expenses Boards are created with Board Relation columns pointing to the Project Board. The Task Board (or Tasks Group within the Project Board) is designed to handle Subtask nesting. All column types are confirmed against monday.com's supported column types before any data loads begin.
Sandbox migration and reconciliation
We run a full migration into a monday.com test workspace using production-like data volume. The customer's project manager and operations lead reconcile record counts across all boards, spot-check 25-50 records against the Tidy Build source (confirming quote totals, material pricing levels, time-entry durations, and expense amounts), and verify that cross-board links (Quote to Project, Material to Supplier, PO to Supplier, Time Entry to Project) resolve correctly. Subtask nesting is verified. Any column type corrections, missing values, or link-resolution failures are fixed in the design document before production migration begins.
User provisioning and role mapping
We extract every distinct Tidy Build User referenced on Tasks, Times, and Expenses and match them against the monday.com Workspace member list. We preserve the Manager versus Team designation as a custom tag on each user's profile or as a column on a User Info Board. Any Tidy Build User without a matching monday.com account is held in a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision. Migration cannot proceed past Times and Expenses without resolved assignee references because those objects are structured around User assignment.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order. Suppliers and Materials Boards load first (no cross-references required). Customers Board loads next. The Project Board loads with cost-centre and budget metadata. Purchase Orders load with supplier Connect Column links resolved. Quotes load with Board Relation links to Project. Tasks and Subtasks load with assignee Person column resolution. Times and Expenses load last with Project Board Relation links resolved and file attachments migrated via the monday.com Files API. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. We use monday.com's REST API v2 with exponential backoff on rate-limit responses.
Cutover, delta migration, and automation handoff
We freeze Tidy Build writes during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then set monday.com as the system of record. We deliver the automation and workflow inventory document to the customer's admin team with a recommended monday.com Automation equivalent for each item. We support a one-week hypercare window where we resolve any reconciliation issues raised by the team. We do not rebuild Tidy Build automations as monday.com Automations inside the migration scope; that is a separate engagement or an internal admin task.
Platform deep dives
Tidy Build
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 Tidy Build 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
Tidy Build: Not publicly documented. Tidy International does not publish per-endpoint quotas in the open developer docs; in practice rate limits are confirmed once the integration is enabled on a customer tenant..
Data volume sensitivity
Tidy Build 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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