HR teams love monday.com for its flexibility, but flexibility comes with a trade-off: the platform doesn’t ship with built-in solutions for common HR workflows. There’s no native leave tracker, no onboarding pipeline, and no way to generate offer letters from board data.
That’s where the monday.com marketplace comes in. Instead of building everything from scratch with automations and formulas, you can plug in purpose-built apps that handle specific HR problems out of the box.
Here are five apps worth looking at — each one paired with the HR headache it eliminates.
The Problem: New Hires Fall Through the Cracks
Onboarding involves dozens of tasks spread across multiple departments — IT needs to provision accounts, finance needs banking details, the hiring manager needs to schedule orientation, and the new hire needs to submit a pile of documents. When all of this lives in a monday.com board, it works for the HR team. But the new hire? They don’t have a monday.com seat, so they’re stuck waiting for emails and reminders.
The Solution: OnboardFlow
Free plan available
OnboardFlow gives new hires their own mobile app — no monday.com license required. HR builds onboarding templates on their board, and each new hire gets an invite code to access their personalized task list on their phone. Upload your ID, read the employee handbook, complete compliance training — all from a single checklist.
The key is the two-way sync. When a new hire marks a task complete on their phone, the monday.com board updates instantly. HR sees a real-time dashboard of every onboarding in progress: who’s on track, who’s stalled, and which documents are still pending review. No more sending “friendly reminder” emails that everyone ignores.
The Problem: HR Documents Are a Copy-Paste Nightmare
Every offer letter, welcome packet, and employee memo follows the same template — but someone still has to manually fill in names, dates, salaries, and job titles every single time. It’s tedious, error-prone, and somehow always urgent.
The Solution: DocuGen
Free (20 docs/month) · Paid from $35/month · 33,000+ installs · 4.7/5 rating
DocuGen pulls data directly from your monday.com columns and populates Word templates automatically. Set it up once and every new row generates a ready-to-send document — offer letters, NDAs, promotion letters, exit paperwork, whatever your templates require.
Onboarding a cohort of ten people? Bulk-generate ten personalized offer letters in seconds. The built-in e-signature feature lets recipients sign digitally without switching platforms. And with monday.com automation recipes, you can trigger document generation the moment an item’s status changes to “Ready to Send” — zero manual steps.
The Problem: Nobody Knows Who’s Off Next Week
Leave tracking in spreadsheets breaks the moment two people edit the same file. Shared Google Calendars get cluttered. And without a single source of truth, managers accidentally approve overlapping time off or schedule deadlines during someone’s vacation.
The Solution: TeamBoard
Free (up to 3 users) · Paid from $30/month · 6,300+ installs
TeamBoard adds leave management and capacity planning to monday.com. Employees submit time-off requests, managers approve them from a centralized dashboard, and a Leave Dashboard shows balances and upcoming absences at a glance. Custom leave types — parental, mental health, volunteer days — can be configured to match company policy.
The resource planning side is equally useful. A visual timeline shows who’s available and who’s overloaded. Try to assign a task to someone on approved leave and you’ll get a warning. For teams that need to track hours, the built-in timesheet feature lets employees log time directly on tasks for manager review.
The Problem: The Org Chart Lives in a Dusty PowerPoint
Someone made an org chart six months ago. Since then, three people were hired, one team was restructured, and a manager moved to a different department. The chart is now fiction, and nobody wants to update it because it means recreating the whole thing in a slide deck.
The Solution: Org Chart
Free plan available · Pro from $32/month · 3,600+ installs
Org Chart by LeanyLabs generates interactive organizational charts directly from monday.com board data. Define parent-child relationships between items — employees, departments, roles — and the chart builds itself. When you add a new hire to the board, they appear in the right spot automatically.
Need to reorganize a team? Drag and drop to reassign reporting lines. Need to share the chart at a company all-hands? Export to PNG or PDF on the Pro plan. It’s a small app that solves one specific problem, and it solves it well.
The Problem: Signed Documents Get Lost Between Platforms
Your HR team sends an offer letter through Docusign, then manually updates the monday.com board once it’s signed. Except sometimes they forget. Or the signer takes a week and nobody notices because the status on the board still says “Sent.” Now you’re chasing signatures that may have already been completed.
The Solution: Docusign Integration Plus
Free (7 actions/month) · Paid from $19/month
This integration syncs Docusign activity back to monday.com automatically. Create envelopes from item views, track signing progress in real time, and let status updates flow both ways without manual intervention.
The smart matching feature is particularly useful — it connects Docusign activity to the correct monday.com item by matching on email, even for envelopes sent outside the app. Set up an automation recipe to trigger envelope creation when an item hits “Ready for Signature,” and the board updates to “Signed” the moment ink hits paper. Your board always reflects reality.
Where to Start
You don’t need all five apps on day one. Start with the workflow that causes the most friction:
- Onboarding is chaotic → Start with OnboardFlow
- Documents eat up your afternoon → Start with DocuGen
- Leave tracking is a mess → Start with TeamBoard
- Nobody knows the reporting structure → Start with Org Chart
- Signatures stall in Docusign → Start with Docusign Integration Plus
Each app plugs into monday.com without disrupting what you already have. Install one, see if it sticks, and layer in more as your HR processes grow. The goal isn’t to build a custom HRIS — it’s to stop wrestling with workarounds for problems that already have solutions.