A board of orders in monday.com is a genuinely good system: a status column for the stage, number columns for the total and the deposit, a timeline for the delivery date, and a view per person who needs one. It works until you want the board to calculate something. Formula columns and dashboards sit on the Pro tier at $19 a seat a month, so the moment the arithmetic matters, the bill scales with the number of people who look at it — and the arithmetic is still yours to design and maintain.
monday.com · checked 9 September 2026
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| monday.com | Ordamo | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Boards, columns and views you configure | Orders, deposits and production batches, already assembled |
| Deposit and balance on one order | Number columns, and a formula column on Pro | Both, with dates, on the order itself |
| What arithmetic costs | Formulas and dashboards are Pro: $19 a seat a month billed annually | Included, and priced per business |
| What a production run cost per piece | Nothing divides a run across the orders it covers | A received batch writes what the run really cost onto its products |
| Margin per order | A formula you build, on Pro | Per order, after the real cost lands |
| A page the customer can open | A shared board or an item — which shows them your other work | One link per order, no login, updates itself |
| Free plan | 2 seats, 3 boards | A sample workspace with no card, then $29/mo |
| Orders from a store export | Through a paid integration | A Shopify, Etsy or WooCommerce export imports as orders |
| Configuring it | Yes — this is what it is for | Nothing to configure, which is the point and the limit |
| Who maintains the model | You | Nobody |
Built for orders that take weeks to deliver, start in a message and get paid in parts.
Add a customer and their order
Deposit taken, balance still owed, and the date you promised.
Send your customer their order page
One link that updates itself, instead of twenty messages.
Record what the batch cost
What a run really cost, over the pieces it produced. One button puts that on the products it made.
See what you actually made
Revenue, cost and margin per order. Money in, money out, cash on hand.
A board holds numbers on the free plan and calculates with them on Pro, at $19 a seat a month billed annually. So the feature that turns your board into an order ledger is also the feature that makes the bill grow with headcount — and the people who need to see an order are exactly the ones you would rather not buy seats for.
Whatever you build is as correct as the day you built it. A formula that ignores a refunded deposit, a status somebody renamed, a column added in the wrong place: nothing errors, the numbers just stop meaning what they did. Purpose-built software is not cleverer than your board — it has simply already met those cases.
The obvious way to keep a customer informed is a shared board or item view, and then they can see the other customers, your notes to the workshop and what you paid for materials. So people stop sharing and answer by hand instead, which on a three-month build is about twenty messages an order.
When one workshop invoice covers six pieces across four orders, a board has no way to divide it — you either put the whole number on one item or keep the split in a spreadsheet beside the board. Here a received batch writes the real per-piece cost onto its products, which is the whole reason the margin per order is a number you can trust.
$0, then $9/seat/mo
The Free plan covers 2 seats and 3 boards. Basic is $9 a seat a month billed annually or $12 monthly, Standard $12 or $14, and Pro — the tier carrying formula columns and dashboards — $19 or $24. Seats are bought in blocks rather than one at a time, so the real floor is a multiple of the per-seat price. The Pro trial is 14 days.
$29/mo
One plan, per business, everything included — however many of you there are. $0 today, first charge after 7 days, cancel in one click. 14-day money-back on the first month. Nothing is metered.
What is in the planWe are not the only answer, and pretending otherwise wastes your afternoon.
A card per order and the stages on a wall. Free, then $5 a user a month billed annually.
AirtableA database you design yourself. Free to 1,000 records a base, then $20 per user a month billed annually.
Google SheetsThe incumbent: free, endlessly flexible, and the arithmetic is yours to keep right.
The whole categorySix families of tool, what each one answers, and the three questions that pick between them.
Yes, and well: a board with a status column, number columns for the total and the deposit, a formula column for the balance and a timeline for the delivery date is a workable order tracker. Two things to know before you commit to it — the formula column is a Pro feature, and everything the board calculates is a model you own and maintain.
The Free plan covers 2 seats and 3 boards. Basic is $9 a seat a month billed annually or $12 monthly, Standard $12 or $14, and Pro $19 or $24 — Pro being where formula columns and dashboards live. Seats are sold in blocks, so the monthly floor is a multiple of the per-seat price. Ordamo is $29 a month for the business. Confirm the current position on monday.com before deciding on the strength of a number here.
To have the board work it out for you, yes — formula columns are a Pro feature. On the cheaper tiers you can still hold the deposit and the balance as two typed numbers, which works exactly as well as your discipline does.
Trello is simpler and cheaper and stops sooner; monday configures further and charges for the tier where it starts calculating. Neither divides a production run's cost across orders, and neither gives a customer a page of their own, so the choice between them is about how much building you enjoy.
You can share a board or an item view, and that is the problem: the board carries every other customer and your notes to the workshop. Ordamo gives one link per order showing what was ordered, what is paid, what is owed and when it will be ready — nothing else, and no login.
For the order process, yes. For monday, no — there is no board here, nothing to configure and no home for the rest of the business. Most studios that move keep the boards for work in progress and let this hold the orders and the money.
For commissions with deposits, a purpose-built order tool, which is this at $29 a month with formulas, margin and the order page included. If you would rather keep building, Airtable is the stronger database at $20 a user and Trello the cheaper board at $5.
Export the board as CSV and import the file as it comes — there is no template, the columns are read for you, and you confirm the mapping before anything saves. Then add the deposits with their dates and the batches currently in production. New orders start here; open items can finish on the board.
Plan prices in both billing states, the Free plan's seat and board limits, which tier carries formula columns and dashboards, and the 14-day Pro trial read from monday.com/pricing on 9 September 2026. Its published seat minimum was not consistent between readings, so this page says only that seats are sold in blocks rather than quoting a floor. Software pricing moves; confirm with the vendor before deciding on the strength of a figure here.
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