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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/architecture/monograph-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/architecture/monograph-profile/alternatives/) # Monograph User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 236 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.4/5 - Customer support: 4.7/5 - Value for money: 4.3/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 139 reviews (59%) - 4 stars: 81 reviews (34%) - 3 stars: 12 reviews (5%) - 2 stars: 3 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 1 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - It's made life so much simpler to have everything tracked in one place and I love the new options to provide reminder emails for invoices, and the ability to see when an invoice was opened etc. - I can customize these and change them when needed. Plus, this is a great visualizer for our clients to understand their project timeline better. - It's clearly a product made by and for Architects. When well-used, it helps young designers like myself better understand fees and project timelines in relation to fees. ### Most mentioned cons - Adding previously billed amounts does not function from project that were started before we migrated to the software. - We were told it was a glitch but there was no urgency to fix it. - It also takes a lot of clicks to create a task and no specific way to create a list of sub-tasks. ## Monograph customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 236 (page 1). ### Changed the game - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Dan D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The software has given us a great tool to communicate where our projects are both internally as well as externally with our clients. #### Cons Nothing really stands out about "liking least", I'm just happy to be able to give feedback about features and then see the Monograph team deploy those requests. --- ### Good progress, still a few features to build out. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Matt M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros puts everything in one place as opposed to having multiple different products to do one feature each. #### Cons still working out some kinks and building new features. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph consolidate and add more features to our PM workflow --- ### Equal Pros/Cons - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Lauren H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like the approachable user interface, the project timelines visuals, and the catering to the architecture business. I like the invoicing now because it shows percent complete and is way better. The cost is ok for me a sole practitioner, but not ideal for growing. #### Cons I hate that is an online app, and not a desktop app. The online app seems to have trouble syncing quickly, and signing out and signing in is annoying, and constantly reconnecting to quickbooks is annoying. I also don't like that there is no mobile app. This would be helpful for just checking on things remotely, as well as time tracking while on the job site (like Geofency app which helps you track time and associated gps locationg). Lastly, it seems like the Resources area resets everytime you are there, so if you customize a schedule for the week, and then get out of the resources page it resets, so you have no record of your plan again throughout the week. My work around right now is to screen shot it, but that is inconvenient / absurd at best. It would be ideal to be able to keep it current always, update your customized plan as the week goes on, and even print the plan as necessary. #### Vendor response Thank you for your feedback! We've added these items to our request board for the team to review for future enhancements. We'd be happy to set up a call with our customer experience team to learn more about your needs! Replied May 2022 --- ### Monograph Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Daniel S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I enjoy everything that Monograph has to offer; however, what I enjoy the most is the milestone management. This has been a game-changer for our office. We have a distinctive dashboard display of all milestones that need to be completed that week. I can customize these and change them when needed. Plus, this is a great visualizer for our clients to understand their project timeline better. #### Cons I'm honestly enjoying everything with Monograph. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph Houzz Pro did not provide us with the robust software options as Monograph does. --- ### Great tool for Architects - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joe P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We really like Monograph and have full confidence that the monograph team will continue to build this software and refine to become and indispensable tool for us. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Consolidating multiple software to a single one. Purpose built for the A&E industry with work flow to match. The team is responsive and reachable. The team continues to build the software. #### Cons Not fully built out for multiple service companies. Software is still a little clunky and feels somewhat startup. They have check all the features boxes but not implemented in the best way possible yet. We have seen improvements along the way but are missing a development schedule for feature requests. #### Reasons for choosing Monograph Consolidated features. Better workflow for our industry. Better looking software. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph Software not purpose built, hard to get a hold of the team or get feature implemented. fragmented software platforms --- ### Monograph is Great! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Cynthia H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I love Monograph and would recommend to anyone in the field. I think it is pretty user friendly and easy to understand where project status and finances stand. The color coding and layout of the Gant sheet is great! Invoicing is a breeze as well as timesheet management. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I love the layout and color options. It is visually pleasing to start, and pretty easy to use once you get acquainted with the program. Easy for all staff to use, and helps us manage our time better. #### Cons Project reports and employee performance reports could be better and easier to read. We have some discrepancies when it comes to profit and loss, so we refer to our QuickBooks online for that information. #### Reasons for choosing Monograph Monograph was overall more detailed, and easier to understand project management. Timesheets and invoicing were simpler as well. All the new features that have been added since we enrolled have been a bonus, keep them coming! #### Reasons for switching to Monograph Monograph had more features that we use, and once --- ### Great software and easy to use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Daphne B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very positive, and although there is plenty of room for improvement, I do notice that there are often new features being introduced, which I greatly appreciate. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is very user friendly and easy to learn how to use. It does not take much time to onboard new employees. It's staffing/scheduling feature is great too. #### Cons I would like to see more metrics for each project. Namely profit margin, as the numbers I see under the profit margin for each project seem way off. It would be nice to understand how those numbers are calculated. It would also be nice if Monograph could provide a cost rate for each employee. I would also like to be able to enter PTO time available to each employee, which would also help provide a better picture of their cost rate and therefore the profit margin on projects. It would also be nice to be able to see at what pace we are consuming the fee for projects, and how we should alter staff hours accordingly. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph We needed a software with better staffing/scheduling features. --- ### Monograph review after 6 months - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Bellame A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, we are still learning to use monograph and are still undecided if we like it or not. Even though we do not send invoices thru monograph, we have used it to track our time when invoicing and really liked that you can track any time that hasn't being invoiced in the past. This saves time, but at the same time we create two invoices (one in monograph and the other in QuickBooks). We also enjoyed that we can see what tasks have been completed and assigning tasks have been fairly easy do. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Monograph is easy to use and in some way intuitive. Resource allocation and reporting are great features, but they need improvement. #### Cons Integrating with QuickBooks client information was simple, but we had to manually transfer our time from QBs to monograph which was very time consuming and to this day we have not transferred all our time into. We do not use the invoicing feature to directly invoice our clients because we wish that we could add some notes under each phase, or at least under hourly phases. Also, I do not like that you cannot combine hours under same titles, for example two principals have worked on the same project/phase - it shows as separate in the invoice. Also, project reporting and project financials lack important data. Such as showing profit and loss reports for each project. It only shows based on billable rates but not employee cost/overhead multiplier. Under time log, it would be helpful if the phases are shown. It would be great if rate tables could be adjusted or set per project. It would be helpful if tasks and resource allocation were sync, rather than being separate features. Also, it would be great if it were mobile/tablet friendly. #### Reasons for choosing Monograph Software interface, geared more towards architects, and invoicing capabilities. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph We needed a time tracking system with resource allocation and project task management. --- ### We love Monograph and use it daily to track time, schedule and budget - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Erik H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Great! So very helpful and easy for my small architecture firm to implement and my staff to use. It keeps everyone abreast of each projects schedule, budget and expenses. The schedule Gannt Chart graphic is awesome. Readily shows our progress, our expenditures and milestones. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros So easy right out of the box for our architecture firm. All the phases, schedules and budgets are prepopulated, just a little editing is needed and you're on your way. It's nice to see Monograph taking our comments and pumping up new and improved features on a regular basis. #### Cons Invariably, our accountants need to use Quickbooks. Which is forcing us to still have QBO. The interface and synchronization between Monograph and QBO is lacking. For one, the invoice numbers get lost and have to be manually checked and plugged into QBO after the fact. A real pain if not done right away. Also, the connection to Quickbooks is lost ever day, which I almost always don't notice until I am at the end of an invoice and have to back out, force the connection and then go back into the invoice to send to QBO. Would be nice to have the connection constant or be able to update it straight from an invoice when we would send data to QBO. Also, if QBO doesn't have the client or project, it won't send the invoice data. Which is less than helpful. Lots of manual back data needed to push a new client, invoice to QBO. Way too much. #### Reasons for choosing Monograph Out of the box ease of use. Graphic visualization of a project budget and schedule. Ability to readily and easily edit data, both past and present. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph Quickbooks is not set up for an architecture office with clients with multiple projects, or phases of mixed fee types (hourly & fixed). BQE Core is so very robust and works great for an architecture office. But it is so very difficult to navigate and adjust data, timesheets, schedules. When I last used Core pre-pandemic, schedule visualization and revision was non-existent. Perhaps they have improved upon that, but Monograph makes it so visible and easy to adjust. --- ### A powerful ally in your companies arsenal - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Xavier F C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, Monograph is powerful partner that we are happy to use on a daily basis #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Creates an overall simplified and centralized means of tracking, recording, and achieving project(s) and company needs. #### Cons There are several tools and features of which could be tuned for easier more intuitive use by all. For example, the time tracker. It is often abandoned because of this, yet, holds great potential to not only do its' surface value job, but, as well keep employees more consistent with their hours of work and how that is being applied to projects or internal office activities. This would additionally alleviate stress and anxiety (for all admin and employees) related to submitting timesheets when they are due and accurately. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph We needed to make our workflows more centralized, simpler, and more streamlined because of the nature of our company and having several offices across the United States. As well as employees in diverse locations working remotely. Mongograph assisted with this. #### Vendor response Thank you for your feedback! We've added this to our request board for the team to review for future enhancements. Replied May 2022 --- ### Monograph has improved our staffing/planning tremendously - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Sims K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Customer service has been top notch. Value of the product has been exceptional. It has helped our firm be better at multiple aspects of business and architecture. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Staffing and planning features and how integrated they are with projects. #### Cons The newness of the product means that a lot of needed features have not yet been built out...especially when it comes to reports. #### Reasons for choosing Monograph It seems far superior in almost every aspect. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph There were so many features missing from Archioffice. And there was no customer support. --- ### Not quite perfect but a huge step up nonetheless - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Marcella P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, I would say that my team is pretty happy with everything Monograph has done for us so far. Keep in mind, we're only a month into use. It's taken about 3 weeks to move most of our past data into the software and that's partially due to being a smaller team during a slow period before the next wave of work hits. I'm nitpicking in the cons because this software is genuinely just that close to covering all of the basis our firm needs as far as project management goes and, once they address those issues, this will absolutely save you time and headache in figuring out how well a project's timeline is doing. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros After we reached a point in needing software to manage our several projects, this was absolutely what we need to help keep track of allotting time fairly. Being able to plan your week out in advance, see your timeline and budget, and what hours your teammates are assigned all in once place is a crucial asset for a growing business. #### Cons UI still has a lot of kinks that need to be worked out as well as a few features that many businesses would have a need for. An example of UI is how the time is logged as hourly instead of WHEN you worked (like 3pm-4:30pm in a meeting). Another example is that the time tracking interface on the sidebar can be finicky (such as sometimes the time entries you've created for the day will randomly go missing but reappear when you refresh the page.) Biggest feature missing is while this app is tailor made for managing projects, there's no designated space for Office Management time tracking (such as office meetings, maintenance, marketing, things that can't be charged towards a client). We were told this was a common request that they were working on, but that in the mean time, retrofitting a "project" into office management was the current best practice. Having tasks be somehow integrating into time tracking (such as, associating the hours logged to a task that was assigned) would be incredibly helpful. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph While the previous product was easy to use and great at creating tasks, it was clear it was a general platform for businesses rather than architecture businesses, and we needed something that could tell us where our hours were being assigned. --- ### First impressions.... - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: steven p. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The benefits are wonderful and I'm really really excited about the program. All of our employees can immediately see the benefit of integrating time management/hours spent on a project with general project management, milestones, and tasks. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The most impactful part of Monograph has been the project schedule and forecasting. Seeing what we have under contract and seeing the duration of those projects is going to greatly help manage our team and properly set expectations for our clients. I also really love the milestones and task application where we can assign things for people to do and then have a dialog about those things within each project and make sure they have been completed. #### Cons The biggest thing we would like to see change is how project fees are structured. At the moment, it is best set up for fixed fee projects, but all of our contracts are set up with three different fee types: hourly- not to exceed, hourly with no cap, and fixed. It would be helpful to have some customization to the fee structure that can then get assigned to the different phases. For the projects themselves, I would like to see the tasks and milestones be more present on the project overview page and when you navigate to the individual phase of a project, I would like to see the milestones and tasks that are in that phase and be able to add more within that page rather than have to navigate to a separate page that does not show me the gantt chart/schedule. I'm not sure how the expenses tracking feature would really work for us and currently don't see using it. None of our employees generate expenses. Any expenses for a project mostly come in the form of reimbursables (consultants, printing, permitting fees, etc.). A dream down the road would be some integration with Slack that sends a notification to individuals or channels dedicated to that project to notify them of assigned tasks, deadline reminders, etc. #### Reasons for choosing Monograph It seems as though Monograph was developed specifically for our industry and the nuances for how we have to structure and track time and billing. --- ### Best Software for Architecture and Design firms out there! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rome L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The reports of profitability, time management, and utilization rate are game-changing in the software. #### Cons They are always improving the software. I wish we could do some purchase orders for products and materials we sell for projects. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph It fit better with our business model and Houzz Pro does not integrate with Quickbooks properly. --- ### Out of the Box Solution that is Easy to Use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Seth A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Once a project is entered, users can immediately track time and monitor performance. There are not major customizations to make and everything is available instantly. The invoicing process is one of the simplest I've expereinced. #### Cons Somewhat limited features compared to the big company offerings, but they are expanding their features on a monthly basis. #### Reasons for choosing Monograph Cost and simplicity. Graphic interface is also higher quality. --- ### Overview of projects and costs - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Gill M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros To get a visual overview on projects, easy to recover costs and revenues. #### Cons I would love a visual projectview per person. To easily see if a co-worker has to much or not enough on his plate. I think invoicing has not enough flexibility. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph I wanted one app in wish we could do timetracking and projectmanagement and forecasting and invoicing --- ### Good simple to use Architecture budget/project management software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Taku Z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, the software has been pretty intuitive. Their seems to be less of a daunting learning curve with Monograph compared to other project management software. Itsgreat that the software is architecture specific. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The software does what I need it to do. It provides a good overview of my projects, as well as helps keep track of time and budget #### Cons I don't like that the week on the timesheets is weird. It starts on Monday and ends Sunday, and there is no way to change it. I let them know about it and they said its on their list for future improvements, so that's good. #### Reasons for choosing Monograph BQE Core seemed a bit too much for my smaller practice, too overwhelming. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph Monograph is easier to use in an architectural context #### Vendor response Thank you for your feedback! We've added this to our request board for the team to review for future enhancements. Replied May 2022 --- ### Monograph switch from Forecast - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Hilary P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We're able to better anticipate when employees need new work and when we can take on new projects. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The ability to dynamically adapt time estimates for projects is extremely important for our design projects. We can keep pace with the changing nature of our projects and clients. #### Cons We'd prefer to be able to use Monograph for billing and tracking payments the way we currently do with Harvest. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph We needed more features for time tracking and estimating future project needs. #### Vendor response We're glad to hear that you're enjoying Monograph! We recently launched Stripe Payments which may meet your needs. You can find more information in our Knowledge Base at support.monograph.com or by visiting our Changelog at monograph.canny.io/changelog. Replied May 2022 --- ### Great tool for Project Management & Time Tracking that's interface is easy to understand - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Charlotte B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. So far we have had good feedback and engagement with our team and Monograph. It is helping us schedule out time for team members on a weekly basis. Everyone on the team is able to see how the project is performing and we can manage the time spent to avoid going over on project budgets. We have been able to utilize it to see the number of projects within the office and how the schedules stack up against each other. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The ability to see how a project is performing on a daily/weekly/monthly basis in an easily accessible way and course correct as needed before going over the project budget. Everyone on the team has access to all the necessary project information and it all lives in one place. Being able to schedule out people's time weekly and then see how that allocation is used throughout the week. #### Cons Biggest difficulty is navigation between the tabs - i.e. Timesheet, to Resource, to Projects, etc. There is a long lag when loading each one of those. Most of our team members have multiple tab opens to navigate between each just due to the lag. When in a project the only place to get to the tasks is through the Task tab at the top. Our team tends to click on the phase to see what's been allocated for that phase but then has to back out to the Project Dashboard to get back to the Tasks. Could be a way to get to it from multiple places, as there is that feature for other things in Monograph. Task updates don't have notifications within the software to the assigned team members. We use the comments section of tasks to talk/track info with our team members for that specific task. For accounting purposes, we still have to use another program. I don't think this program is robust enough for our invoicing/billing and accounting needs. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph Information was having to live in too many programs and the Project Management of Infocus was cumbersome and not intuitive for the team leaders. Google Sheets was not smart but more just a mechanism for gathering the information of time spent/needed on a project. #### Vendor response Thank you for your feedback! We recently launched Stripe Payments, and we're currently in the process of enhancing Tasks and Milestones. We'd be happy to set up a call with our customer experience team to learn more about your needs! Replied May 2022 --- ### MONOGRAPH - The Best Software for Design Professionals - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sally V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My favourite feature is the time tracking and invoicing. It's made life so much simpler to have everything tracked in one place and I love the new options to provide reminder emails for invoices, and the ability to see when an invoice was opened etc. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love the ease of use and interface. The platform is well suited to those working in the design/construction industry as it caters to their daily/monthly/yearly requirements. It's very straightforward when setting up a new project and the gantt chart offers a wonderful overview of workflow. #### Cons I don't have any cons. If there was one thing that seems a bit intimidating, it would be the financial forecasting features. However as a new business owner this is more of a user issue than a software issue. #### Reasons for choosing Monograph It's focus on design professionals won me over --- ### Monograph Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Daniel F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. So far, great. The Monograph team is outstanding and their resources are very helpful. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Great user interface, unbelievable customer support with a team that is always trying to improve the product. In almost all-in-one platform for architects #### Cons Really need to have your firm's phases and structure organized to begin. We do interior design, interior architecture, and architecture and it's been a bit difficult figuring out how to blend them all in one #### Reasons for choosing Monograph Because it was run and set up for architects specifically. The team really helped us get going #### Reasons for switching to Monograph It was archaic and required too many pieces #### Vendor response Thank you for the kind feedback! We're so glad to hear that you enjoy using Monograph. Replied May 2022 --- ### A colorful platform to review company data - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Amanda J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Monograph is a user-friendly program that can help organize data. It can be a one-stop hub once you have everything in order. #### Cons Some budget items are less user-friendly, and we are still working on understanding and addressing these with monograph staff. Entering information can be a bit tedious at first. --- ### Clean and Simple - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Derek S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. As an employee at a small architecture firm I find Monograph very useful for our needs. It's easy, clean, and simple to use. It also has all the basic tools one might need to keep a firm running. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I love how easy it is to fill out my timesheets. Timesheets are well organized in the software and easy to edit. I also like being able to add notes to the hours I put in. #### Cons I think that the time tracker clock could be easier to use. Currently I don't use it at all because it ends up being more of a pain than a benefit. As well as not improving efficiency. I think it would be more useful if it was integrated with the time sheet page. I often jump from project to project in a single day. So being able to start time on a project and pause, then start time on another would be helpful. #### Vendor response We're so glad to hear that you enjoy using Monograph! Thank you for the feedback - we've added an embedded Timer to our request board for the team to review for future enhancements. Replied May 2022 --- ### Many Things Still in Progress - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: eugene s. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. there are some nice features that other software packages do not have, but quite a few that others have but Monograph does not. Hoping these are integrated going forward #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros interface time tracking gantt charting milestones #### Cons invoicing does not show outstanding balance per projects. would like to generate draft invoices for review as a batch instead of 1x1 tasks do not send out automated reminders, reducing functionality reporting is weak, would like to be able to generate reports on all active projects, by staff member etc. #### Reasons for choosing Monograph Architectural focus. Hoping it can rise to the level of these other, more established softwares, who generally do "data", invoicing, and reporting better at this point. #### Reasons for switching to Monograph wanted better project management capabilities #### Vendor response Thank you for your feedback! We recently updated our Invoices feature and launched Stripe Payments, and we're currently in the process of enhancing Tasks and Milestones. We'd be happy to set up a call with our customer experience team to learn more about your needs! Replied May 2022 --- ### Designer Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: kristina h. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Architecture & Planning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. This is a huge upgrade from Harvest and Deltek. It makes planning easier and tracking more streamline. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The interface is very clear. It is difficult to get lost in it. Some time trackers (Harvest) require information that makes it easy to get lost. #### Cons I'd like the drop down menus to be prepopulated from the week before. That's nit picky but my opinion #### Reasons for switching to Monograph The company made the decision, not me #### Vendor response We're so glad to hear that you enjoy using Monograph! Thank you for the feedback - we've added sticky sorting options to our request board for the team to review for future enhancements. Replied May 2022 ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/architecture/monograph-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Monograph Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice