Project Management migration

Migrate from Tidy Build to monday Work Management

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 logo

Tidy Build

Source

monday Work Management

Destination

monday Work Management logo

Compatibility

83%

10 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Tidy Build and monday Work Management.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

4-6 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

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.

Field-level fidelity

Every standard and custom field arrives verified.

Schema-aware mapping

AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.

Relationships preserved

Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.

Full activity history

Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.

Attachments & notes

Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.

Why teams make this switch

Two sides of the same decision

Leaving

Tidy Build logo

Tidy Build

What's pushing teams away

  • Lack of public documentation or structured user guides makes self-service onboarding difficult, with users reporting they cannot find answers without contacting support.
  • User interface limitations and missing features for documenting and supporting certain project types, particularly for firms with complex or non-standard construction workflows.
  • Performance and usability complaints in G2 reviews where users describe the tool as functional but lacking refinement, especially around mobile and on-site use cases.
  • Desire for more comprehensive CRM-style features or deeper accounting integration beyond what the current Xero connection provides, pushing users toward platforms with broader functionality.

Choosing

monday Work Management logo

monday Work Management

What's pulling them in

  • Lowest onboarding friction of any mid-market PM tool — drag-and-drop boards and colorful UI mean non-technical team members contribute from day one without training.
  • Highly customizable board structure lets teams model their actual workflow rather than forcing a predefined template onto their process.
  • Generous free forever plan with two seats lets small teams or solo users validate the platform before committing budget or migrating data from elsewhere.
  • Integrations with Slack, Zoom, Google Drive, and CRM tools keep monday.com as a coordination hub rather than requiring teams to switch context constantly.
  • Multiple view modes — Kanban, Calendar, Gantt, Map, Chart — give different team members the visualization they prefer without switching tools.

Object mapping

How Tidy Build objects map to monday Work Management

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

maps to

monday Work Management

Board (primary container)

1:1
Fully supported

Tidy 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

maps to

monday Work Management

Item on a Quotes Board

1:1
Fully supported

Tidy 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

maps to

monday Work Management

Item on a Contacts Board (or native Contacts integration)

1:1
Fully supported

Tidy 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

maps to

monday Work Management

Item on a Suppliers Board

1:1
Fully supported

Tidy 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

maps to

monday Work Management

Item on a Materials Board

1:1
Fully supported

Tidy 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

maps to

monday Work Management

Item and Sub-item

1:1
Fully supported

Tidy 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)

maps to

monday Work Management

Item on a Time Tracking Board with custom columns

1:1
Mapping required

Tidy 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

maps to

monday Work Management

Item on an Expenses Board with custom columns

1:1
Fully supported

Tidy 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

maps to

monday Work Management

Item on a Purchase Orders Board

1:1
Fully supported

Tidy 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

maps to

monday Work Management

Team Member (Workspace member)

lossy
Fully supported

Tidy 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

maps to

monday Work Management

Item on a Sales Board with Project linkage

1:1
Fully supported

Tidy 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

maps to

monday Work Management

Custom Columns

lossy
Mapping required

Tidy 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.

Gotchas + challenges

What specifically takes care here

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 logo

Tidy Build gotchas

High

API must be enabled per organisation before migration

Medium

User-role tier limits affect migration scoping

Medium

No publicly documented API rate limits for bulk extraction

monday Work Management logo

monday Work Management gotchas

High

Subitems have no bulk export endpoint

High

API complexity budget constrains query depth

Medium

Daily call limits vary sharply across plan tiers

Medium

Automation and integration rules do not export via API

Low

Saved views are not exposed via API

Pair-specific challenges

  • Tidy Build API must be activated per organisation before migration begins

    Tidy Build's Developer API is not enabled by default. The Tidy documentation states that API access must be explicitly turned on for an organisation and requires contacting Tidy International to have it enabled. If scoping begins and the API is not active, the migration timeline stalls. We confirm API availability during the pre-migration audit, request activation with Tidy on the customer's behalf if needed, and only begin extraction once we have confirmed API access via a successful test call against the customer's account.

  • Tidy Build has no documented API rate limits; concurrency must be probed live

    The Tidy Build API documentation does not specify rate limits for GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE operations. This means we cannot size migration worker threads without first testing against the customer's live account. We run a low-concurrency extraction at scoping to detect throttling behaviour (429 responses or increased latency) and tune thread count accordingly. This adds a half-day to scoping but prevents production disruptions and data gaps that would otherwise surface mid-migration.

  • Construction job-costing semantics require custom column reconstruction in monday.com

    Tidy Build's native support for material hierarchies, multi-level pricing tiers, cost centres, and supplier-linked purchase orders has no direct monday.com equivalent. We reconstruct this using custom columns, sub-items, and Board Relation columns. However, native calculation fields (e.g. margin % from material cost vs. quoted price) require monday.com Pro or Enterprise Formula columns or a third-party integration. We flag any calculated fields that cannot be built from standard monday.com columns in the migration inventory for the customer to address post-migration.

  • Automations, notifications, and reminders do not migrate to monday.com

    Tidy Build task and project automations (e.g. status-change notifications, reminder triggers, approval routing) do not have a direct monday.com equivalent as transferable code. monday.com Automations use different trigger-action semantics. We do not migrate automations as code. We deliver a written inventory of every active Tidy Build automation with its trigger, conditions, and actions, and a recommended monday.com Automation equivalent using monday.com's trigger-action builder. The customer's admin rebuilds these post-migration. This handoff is a key deliverable in the cutover package.

  • Manager versus Team user role tiers have no native monday.com equivalent

    Tidy Build plans cap Manager Users and Team Users separately (e.g. Essentials: 1 Manager, max 30 Team). monday.com uses Workspace-level member and viewer roles with board-level overrides, which is a different permission model. We preserve the Manager/Team designation as a custom property on each User record during migration so that the destination has the data to replicate the access model. The customer's admin sets the actual monday.com permission tier per user post-migration.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Tidy Build to monday Work Management data migration

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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

Context on both ends of the pair

Tidy Build logo

Tidy Build

Source

Strengths

  • Purpose-built for construction job costing with native support for materials, labour rates, and expense tracking against Projects.
  • Multi-tier user model with separate Manager and Team user roles, limiting cost for firms that only need site-staff access.
  • Material hierarchy with categories, items, pricing levels, and locations, supporting complex supplier and inventory structures.
  • REST API covering the full data model including Projects, Materials, Quotes, Tasks, Times, and Expenses for custom integrations.
  • Xero integration for accounting sync, keeping financial data connected to the project control layer.

Weaknesses

  • No publicly documented API rate limits, making it difficult to plan bulk migration workloads without manual testing against the customer's account.
  • API access requires contacting Tidy to have the feature enabled per-organisation, adding a prerequisite step before migration can begin.
  • Documentation and user guides are sparse, with G2 reviewers explicitly flagging the lack of proper documentation as a friction point.
  • Manager user limits on lower plans constrain how many administrative accounts a growing firm can have, potentially requiring plan upgrades to support new hires in management roles.
monday Work Management logo

monday Work Management

Destination

Strengths

  • Drag-and-drop board UI with near-zero learning curve for non-technical users entering project data for the first time.
  • 20+ column types and unlimited custom columns let teams model arbitrarily complex data structures without developer help.
  • Multi-view support — Kanban, Gantt, Calendar, Timeline, Chart, Map — satisfies different team members without forcing a single layout.
  • Automations cover common trigger-action patterns for teams without dedicated developers to write custom scripts.
  • Free plan for 2 seats and a 14-day trial on all paid tiers make evaluation risk-free before committing to migration scope.

Weaknesses

  • Per-seat pricing with no enterprise flat-rate option means costs scale linearly with headcount, making it expensive at 50+ seats.
  • Subitems lack bulk API access, making them problematic for CRM-style use cases where contact records live as subitems under a company board.
  • Automations and advanced views are gated behind Pro and Enterprise tiers, creating feature deserts on entry-level plans.
  • Dependency column is visually limited — no critical path, no auto-rescheduling, and cross-board dependencies require manual link management.
  • No native document management; docs, wikis, and knowledge bases require a separate integration or third-party workaround.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard Project Management migration. 3 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

B

Overall complexity

Standard migration

Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Tidy Build and monday Work Management.

  • Object compatibility

    B

    3 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

  • Field mapping clarity

    C

    Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.

  • Timeline complexity

    B

    8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.

  • API constraints

    B

    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

    B

    Tidy Build doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.

Estimator

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Most migrations land between four and six weeks for accounts under 500 Projects, 2,000 Quotes, and no complex multi-level material hierarchies. Migrations with deep material pricing structures, large time-entry histories (over 100,000 records), multiple Purchase Order Boards, or complex cross-board relationship requirements move to eight to twelve weeks because of custom column schema design, Board Relation resolution, and the automation handoff work. Timeline assumes Tidy Build API access is confirmed before scoping begins.

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