Google Sheets are for calculations, monday.com is for managing a Team and Facilities

I worked at a Makerspace (student fabrication space) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was part of the team that managed the facility and provided services to users (students and faculty). When we first opened, we used Google Sheets to track everything from machine maintenance to hiring staff. After about a year of opening, these spreadsheets became too large and impossible to manage efficiently.

We discovered monday.com and after a free trial, we were sold. monday.com allowed us to streamline administrative record-keeping and made it much more enjoyable. It also really helped us stay on top of routine maintenance of our equipment and keep all of the applicable information associated with an asset in one place. One huge help was the ability to attach photos and files. There isn't an intuitive way to do something like this in Google Sheets.

Overall, monday.com allowed the UW Makerspace to track vast amounts of information that was necessary to keep the place running efficiently.

I've never had issues with reliability or uptime. And by never, I mean never.