Monday.com to ClickUp migration: import the data, rebuild the system.

Use the importer, but only for the data. Do not let it design your workspace. A Monday.com to ClickUp migration fails when a team copies its boards one to one and expects ClickUp to behave like Monday. It works when you build the ClickUp structure first and pour the data into it.

A disclosure first. I am a Certified ClickUp Consultant and we build and migrate ClickUp workspaces for clients, so I have an obvious interest in you landing on ClickUp. That is also why this page tells you exactly what the importer will not do. The transfer lists below come from ClickUp's own Monday.com import article and monday.com's export documentation, both read on 30 September 2026. The opinions are ours.

Three calls drive the verdict:

• The importer is good at records and bad at logic. Everything that is a value on an item (a name, a status, a date, a number, a person, a comment) comes across. Everything that is a relationship or a rule (a formula, a connected board, a mirror, a dependency, an automation) does not. Plan your effort around that split.
• Import the status column, not the groups. Most Monday boards use groups for phases, months or clients, not workflow stages. Turning them into ClickUp statuses gives you a status list that means nothing. Section 03 shows how to keep the group names anyway.
• The rebuild is the upgrade. The formulas, connections and automations you have to recreate are the parts most worth rethinking. Rebuilding only the ones people actually use is how the new workspace ends up simpler than the old one.

Usually no. Pick "Status column as statuses" unless your groups are literally your workflow stages. ClickUp statuses drive views, automations and reporting, so they should describe where work is, not which month or client it belongs to.

The importer asks you to choose, per board, where the ClickUp List's statuses come from:

• Groups as statuses. Your Monday group names become the List's statuses. This is right only when your groups read like a pipeline, for example "Backlog, In progress, Review, Done".
• Status column as statuses. The board's default status column becomes the List's statuses. ClickUp's article is explicit that with this option your group names are not imported.

That second line is the trap. Plenty of Monday boards group items by client, by week or by quarter, and that grouping is information your team relies on. If you choose the status column, the grouping silently disappears.

The fix takes ten minutes per board. Before you import, add a dropdown or text column on the Monday board called something like "Group", select all items in each group with Monday's batch actions, and set the column to the group's name. That column then imports as a ClickUp custom field, and you can group, filter and sort by it in any ClickUp view. You keep the meaning of the groups and get a clean status list.

Back up, design, prepare, test one board, import, then rebuild the logic and run both tools side by side for a week. For a team of 10 to 50 people that is about three weeks, the same rhythm we lay out in our Asana to ClickUp migration guide.

1. Audit and label every board. Mark each board active, reference or archive. Only active boards go through the importer. Reference boards live on in the export. Archived boards stay behind.
2. Back up before you touch anything. Have a Monday admin download the full account export, which includes boards and files, then export each active board to Excel with updates and sub-items. Monday caps a board export at 100,000 items, exports table views only, and does not export sub-item updates, so the account export is your real safety net.
3. Design the ClickUp structure first. ClickUp's own article tells you to create your Spaces before importing. Decide your Spaces, Folders and Lists, your statuses and the handful of custom fields every List shares, before any data arrives.
4. Prepare the Monday boards. Copy group names into a column where they matter, tidy the status column so every value is one you want in ClickUp, and delete columns nobody fills in. Invite every user to ClickUp so assignees map cleanly.
5. Import one test board, then the rest. Connect with an admin's Monday API token, import a single representative board, and check sub-items, custom fields, time tracking and assignees. When it looks right, import the remaining active boards into the Spaces you designed.
6. Rebuild the logic, then cut over. Recreate the formulas, relationships, automations and dashboards on your priced list, run ClickUp and Monday in parallel for one week, then set Monday to read-only for a month before you cancel.

If you want the ClickUp structure designed and the move run for you, that is exactly what our ClickUp implementation service does, and the workspace architecture behind it sits in our Foundation stage.