Monday.com is a capable project management platform. But building a renewal alert system inside it means assembling automation recipes from scratch — and paying project management pricing for a contract tracking use case.
Try MyRenewals Free →Monday.com is a strong product for project and task management. Teams that already use it for workflows, campaigns, and sprints can also build contract tracking boards — and for teams that live in Monday, keeping contracts alongside other work has obvious appeal.
The problem is that Monday's strength is task and project workflow, not date-based contract lifecycle management. The renewal alert logic has to be built from scratch using Monday's automation builder — which requires multiple automation recipes per contract type, careful configuration to handle 90/60/30/7 day cadences correctly, and ongoing maintenance when automations break or team structures change.
And then there's the price. Monday starts at £9 per user per month. For a team of three tracking contracts, that's £27/month for a system you still had to build yourself. MyRenewals Starter is £7/month with everything already included — no automation setup required.
These aren't criticisms of Monday as a product — they're the natural limits of using a project management tool for a contract alerting use case.
Building a 90/60/30/7 day alert cadence in Monday requires multiple automation recipes — one for each alert stage. Each automation needs to be set up correctly, tested, and monitored. If a recipe breaks silently — which they do — alerts stop firing and you won't know until a renewal is missed.
Monday starts at £9 per user per month. For a team of three tracking contracts, that's £27/month minimum — for a system you still had to build yourself, using a platform primarily designed for project management. MyRenewals Starter is £7/month with renewal alerts, audit trail, and client/supplier grouping all included from day one.
Monday has date columns, but no built-in concept of notice periods, term lengths, or renewal history. There's no dashboard that automatically surfaces contracts approaching expiry — you have to build the views, the filtered displays, and the escalation logic yourself. Every Monday contract tracker looks different because everyone built it from scratch.
Monday is designed for complex project workflows with dependencies, timelines, workloads, and Gantt charts. Using it for contract renewal tracking means paying for a full project management suite while missing the specific features that matter for renewals — notice period calculation, multi-stage alert cadences, and a compliance-ready audit history.
| Feature | Monday.com | MyRenewals |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic renewal alerts (90/60/30/7 days) | Build yourself | ✓ Built in |
| Purpose-built for renewals | ✗ | ✓ |
| Works out of the box | ✗ Requires setup | ✓ |
| Notice period tracking | Manual setup required | ✓ |
| Full audit history | Activity log only | ✓ |
| Client & supplier grouping | Manual boards/groups | ✓ |
| CSV import | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free plan available | ✗ | ✓ 10 renewals |
| Monthly cost for 3 users | £27+/month | £7/month |
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