Project Management migration

Migrate from Time Champ to monday Work Management

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Time Champ and monday Work Management. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in monday Work Management.

Time Champ logo

Time Champ

Source

monday Work Management

Destination

monday Work Management logo

Compatibility

42%

5 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Time Champ and monday Work Management.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

3-5 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Time Champ to monday.com is a paradigm shift from employee surveillance and workforce intelligence to team-based project management and task collaboration. Time Champ stores app-usage logs, screenshots, GPS tracks, and productivity classifications that have no native monday.com equivalent; we preserve what we can as structured data exports and flag the rest for manual rebuild. Timesheets generated by Time Champ's auto-tracking engine decompose into monday.com Items with time tracking columns and group-by-date layouts. Attendance and shift data map to date-range columns, person columns, and status labels. We do not migrate Time Champ's runtime-computed alerts, burnout signals, or attrition risk scores, and we do not transfer monitoring-mode configurations (Silent vs Interactive tracking) because these concepts have no monday.com analog. Automations, forms, and dashboards in Time Champ require manual reconstruction in monday.com's board-and-view model.

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

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Time Champ

What's pushing teams away

  • The iOS app has recurring stability issues — users report that automatic screen recordings continue after the employee has manually stopped the tracker and can run outside working hours, creating a trust and privacy problem.
  • The interface and feature depth cause an overwhelming experience for new administrators — advanced reports, alert configurations, and shift scheduling require time to navigate effectively before the team sees value.
  • Screenshots are not available on the Starter plan and are retained for only one week on Professional, which frustrates teams that need longer audit trails or proof-of-work documentation during compliance reviews.
  • The per-user, per-month billing model can produce unexpected cost increases as teams grow, especially when the number of tracked users is not actively managed against the tier's seat cap.
  • Processing multiple reports simultaneously is slow and limited on lower tiers, which makes the tool feel constrained for operations teams that generate high report volumes regularly.

Choosing

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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 Time Champ objects map to monday Work Management

Each row shows how a Time Champ 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.

Time Champ

User

maps to

monday Work Management

Workspace Member

1:1
Fully supported

Time Champ Users (name, email, tracking mode, license tier) map to monday.com Workspace Members. We use email as the dedupe key. The monitoring-mode setting (Silent vs Interactive) has no monday.com equivalent and is not migrated; we include it in the User export as a reference field for the customer's compliance team. The tracking-mode preference becomes a custom column label in the exported user CSV rather than a native monday.com field.

Time Champ

Team

maps to

monday Work Management

Workspace or Board Group

1:many
Fully supported

Time Champ Teams (up to 2 on Starter, 10 on Professional, 50 on Enterprise) map to monday.com Workspaces or Board Groups depending on the customer's org structure preference. We scope the team count during discovery and flag whether it exceeds the destination plan's workspace cap. Teams with a line-manager hierarchy map to monday.com's person column assignments and group-by-person views. If the customer has more than 50 teams, we recommend a consolidation step before migration.

Time Champ

Shift

maps to

monday Work Management

Date Columns + Status Labels

lossy
Fully supported

Time Champ Shifts define working-hours windows, days of the week, and break configurations. monday.com has no native shift-management object, so we reconstruct shift logic using date columns (start time, end time, break duration) and status labels (On Shift, Off Shift, Break). Multi-shift users receive multiple monday.com Items or item groups with distinct date ranges. The customer configures these as recurring calendar events or automated status updates post-migration.

Time Champ

Attendance Record

maps to

monday Work Management

Item with Date Column and Status

1:1
Fully supported

Time Champ daily attendance records (clock-in, clock-out, overtime, late-arrival flags) map to monday.com Items in an Attendance board with date columns for clock-in and clock-out and a status column for Present/Absent/Late/Overtime. We preserve the overtime duration and late-arrival flag as separate numeric columns. Monthly and daily attendance reports from Time Champ do not migrate as reports; we deliver the underlying raw attendance records so the customer rebuilds aggregations as monday.com dashboards.

Time Champ

Timesheet

maps to

monday Work Management

Board Items with Time Tracking Column

1:many
Fully supported

Time Champ auto-tracks timesheets from activity logs, combining idle time, active time, and task associations into aggregated entries. We decompose each timesheet into atomic time entries (date, user, duration, associated project or task label) and create monday.com Items in a Time Tracking board with the time tracking column enabled (Pro+ feature). If the customer uses Time Champ's Time Claims feature, we include them as additional time entry Items with a Time Claim status label. This decomposition prevents duplication when the customer later queries total hours by person or by project.

Time Champ

Activity Log

maps to

monday Work Management

Custom Item Fields (CSV Export)

1:1
Fully supported

Time Champ Activity Logs (app name, URL, category, duration per day) are preserved as a structured CSV export rather than a monday.com native object because monday.com has no app-usage or URL-tracking schema. We include the tenant-defined Productivity Classification (Productive/Unproductive/Neutral) per app in the CSV. The customer can optionally create a monday.com board for Activity Reference with app name, category label, and average duration columns, but this is a manual setup step after migration.

Time Champ

Screenshot

maps to

monday Work Management

Not Migrated (Export Only)

1:1
Fully supported

Time Champ screenshots (Professional: 1-week retention; Enterprise: extended with blur controls) have no monday.com equivalent. We export all accessible screenshots as timestamped binary files in a file archive keyed by user and date. The customer receives a data completeness report noting any screenshots that aged out of retention before the export window. Screenshot timestamps migrate as reference dates in the user activity export CSV.

Time Champ

GPS / Location Tracking

maps to

monday Work Management

Not Migrated (Export Only)

1:1
Mapping required

Time Champ GPS location logs for field employees map to a location reference CSV (coordinates, timestamp, user) rather than a monday.com native object because monday.com does not support GPS or geolocation fields on Items. The customer can optionally attach the location CSV as a file to a Field Operations board for reference, but this is a post-migration manual step. We flag this gap in the data completeness report.

Time Champ

Productivity Classification

maps to

monday Work Management

Tags or Status Labels (Manual Rebuild)

lossy
Fully supported

Time Champ's tenant-defined app classification rules (Productive, Unproductive, Neutral per app or URL) are tenant-scoped and have no universal mapping to any monday.com taxonomy. We export the full classification ruleset as a structured CSV (app name, URL pattern, category label) and deliver it as a manual-setup checklist for the customer's monday.com admin. The customer recreates the categories as monday.com Tags, status labels, or a separate Classification board as preferred.

Time Champ

Time Champ Report

maps to

monday Work Management

monday.com Dashboard (Manual Rebuild)

lossy
Fully supported

Time Champ Reports (Daily Timesheet, Monthly Attendance, App Usage, Productivity, Late Employees, Suspicious Activity) are read-only aggregates computed from raw data. We migrate the underlying raw data records (attendance entries, time entries, activity logs) and deliver a report inventory listing every Time Champ report with its configuration parameters. The customer or a monday.com partner rebuilds each report as a monday.com Dashboard using the imported board data as the source.

Time Champ

Alert / Notification

maps to

monday Work Management

monday.com Automations (Manual Rebuild)

lossy
Fully supported

Time Champ alerts (burnout early-warning, attrition risk, suspicious activity, summary emails) are computed at runtime from activity pattern analysis. They are not persistent data records and cannot be migrated. We deliver an alert inventory listing every active alert type, its trigger condition, and its action. The customer rebuilds equivalent monitoring using monday.com Automations (Standard+ plans: 250 actions/month; Pro: 25,000 actions/month) or integrates a third-party monitoring tool.

Time Champ

Holiday

maps to

monday Work Management

monday.com Date Column or Calendar View

lossy
Fully supported

Time Champ tenant-defined holidays (date and name pairs) map to a monday.com Holidays board with a date column. The customer recreates holiday entries as recurring calendar events or marks them in a dedicated non-working-day board that they reference when reviewing attendance and timesheet data.

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.

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Time Champ gotchas

High

Per-user billing with no inactive-seat grace period

Medium

Screenshots are tier-gated and short-retained on Professional

Medium

Teams seat cap is a hard structural limit

Low

iOS app tracker malfunction corrupts activity log continuity

Low

Productivity classifications are tenant-scoped, not universal

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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

  • Most Time Champ data has no monday.com equivalent

    Time Champ is an employee monitoring platform; monday.com is a work management platform. App-usage logs, screenshots, GPS location tracks, and productivity classifications have no native monday.com object type. We export these as structured CSV archives and deliver them as a data completeness report, but the customer must decide whether to use them as reference files, import them into a separate analytics tool, or treat them as historical records only. Migrations scoped without acknowledging this gap result in customer expectations that the monitoring history will appear as monday.com boards — it will not.

  • Timesheet auto-tracking does not replicate in monday.com

    Time Champ auto-generates timesheets from silent background tracking of apps, URLs, and mouse/keyboard activity. monday.com has no auto-tracking engine. Timesheets migrate as historical records (Items with time tracking data) but future time entry requires manual logging by team members using monday.com's time tracking column on Pro+ plans. Teams that rely on Time Champ's zero-friction auto-timesheets must change their timesheet process post-migration; this is a workflow change, not a data migration gap.

  • monday.com time tracking requires Pro or Enterprise

    Time tracking as a native monday.com feature is only available on Pro ($19/seat) and Enterprise plans. Standard ($12/seat) does not include the time tracking column. If the customer's monday.com destination is Standard, time entries from Time Champ migrate as numeric column values (hours per item per day) rather than native time tracking. We scope the destination plan during discovery and warn if the Standard plan is selected and the migration includes a high volume of timesheet entries.

  • monday.com automations must be rebuilt, not migrated

    Time Champ alert configurations (burnout thresholds, attrition risk triggers, suspicious activity flags) and notification rules have no direct monday.com equivalent. monday.com Automations use board-event triggers, not behavioral pattern analysis. We deliver a written alert inventory with each rule's condition and action, but the customer's monday.com admin rebuilds automations using monday.com's recipe builder or the API. Teams with complex alert logic should budget additional post-migration configuration time.

  • Productivity classifications do not map across platforms

    Time Champ's tenant-defined Productive/Unproductive/Neutral app classifications are arbitrary labels set by the customer's admin. There is no universal taxonomy, so no standard mapping exists to any monday.com feature. We export the full classification CSV and present it as a manual-setup checklist. If the customer wants any productivity insight in monday.com, they must rebuild classifications as monday.com Tags or create a separate Productivity Reference board manually.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Time Champ to monday Work Management data migration

  1. Discovery and data audit

    We audit the Time Champ tenant across tier (Starter/Professional/Enterprise), user count, team count, shift configurations, attendance record volume, timesheet entry count, activity log retention window, screenshot availability, and any active alerts and notification rules. We pair this with a monday.com edition decision: Standard ($12/seat) covers basic boards, views, and automations; Pro ($19/seat) is required for time tracking columns, formula columns, and chart views; Enterprise is for advanced security and multi-workspace management. The discovery output is a written migration scope, a data completeness gap report, and a monday.com edition recommendation.

  2. Data extraction and decomposition

    We extract Users, Teams, Shifts, Attendance records, Timesheets, Activity Logs, Productivity Classifications, Holidays, Time Claims, and GPS data in structured CSV and JSON formats. We decompose aggregated Time Champ timesheets into atomic time entries (user, date, duration, project label) before export to avoid duplication in monday.com. We export screenshots as timestamped binary files. Activity logs are exported with the original Productivity Classification label preserved. We produce a data completeness report noting any screenshots aged out of retention and any activity log windows missing due to iOS tracker malfunctions documented in the source.

  3. monday.com workspace and board design

    We design the destination monday.com workspace structure: one workspace per Time Champ team (if under workspace cap) or consolidated workspace with board groups. We create boards for Attendance (date columns, status labels), Time Tracking (time tracking column, person column, date group), Activity Reference (app name, category label, duration), and Holidays (date column). We configure column types to match the extracted data (person, date, status, numbers, text). We do not configure monday.com Automations at this stage — those are documented separately as the automation inventory handoff.

  4. User provisioning and member import

    We extract every distinct Time Champ User and match by email against the monday.com destination workspace members. Any user in Time Champ without a matching monday.com account is flagged in a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before record import. Team assignments from Time Champ map to monday.com Workspace membership or Board Group assignments depending on the chosen structure.

  5. Timesheet and attendance migration

    We migrate decomposed timesheet entries as monday.com Items in the Time Tracking board with the time tracking column populated (Pro+ only) or as numeric duration columns (Standard). Attendance records migrate as Items in the Attendance board with clock-in/clock-out dates and status labels. Each batch is reconciled against the source record count before the next batch begins. Shift data is presented as date-column entries and status labels rather than a native shift object.

  6. Data completeness handoff and automation inventory

    We deliver the structured CSV exports for Activity Logs, Screenshot archive, GPS logs, and Productivity Classifications as a named file package. We deliver the Alert Inventory document listing every Time Champ alert, its trigger condition, and its recommended monday.com Automation equivalent. We do not configure monday.com Automations inside the migration scope; that work is a separate configuration engagement. We support a one-week hypercare window where we resolve any reconciliation issues with the imported board data.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Time Champ

Source

Strengths

  • Automatic activity tracking removes the need for employees to start/stop timers, producing complete timesheets without manual upkeep.
  • 100+ first-party integrations including Slack, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Trello, and Google Workspace cover common business toolchains out of the box.
  • Documented Swagger REST API plus webhooks for custom integration with internal systems.
  • G2 user-satisfaction rating of 96% across 195+ reviews indicates broad-based positive sentiment for a niche monitoring tool.
  • Tiered pricing starting at roughly $3.90/user/month makes productivity analytics affordable for small operations teams migrating from manual timesheets.

Weaknesses

  • Learning curve for new admins is widely reported; the depth of reports, alerts, and shift configuration overwhelms first-time users.
  • Idle-time detection counts meeting time as idle when keyboard/mouse activity is low, producing inaccurate productivity scores for collaborative roles.
  • Occasional UI lag and display discrepancies in reports require manual refresh to resolve, per G2 reviews.
  • Data accuracy concerns surface in user reviews — some sessions are logged inaccurately, undermining trust for compliance or billing use cases.
  • Certain integrations and screenshot-heavy features sit behind higher tiers, adding cost pressure as teams scale or need longer retention.
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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. 2 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 Time Champ and monday Work Management.

  • Object compatibility

    B

    2 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

    Time Champ: Not publicly documented; limits are described per-integration and confirmed during onboarding by Time Champ support..

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

Estimator

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Most migrations land between three and five weeks for accounts under 500 users, 5,000 timesheet entries, and straightforward single-shift configurations. Migrations with large activity-log exports (where the customer requires raw data preservation as reference CSVs), complex multi-shift structures, or GPS data mapping move to eight to twelve weeks. The monday.com board design phase adds one to two weeks if the customer requests custom column logic or dashboard specifications.

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