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Tally to monday.com without Zapier: options compared
By Jefferson Huera Guzman Updated 4 min read
Without Zapier, you can send Tally responses to monday.com with another workflow tool such as Make, with your own code that receives Tally's webhook and calls the monday.com API, or with Tally Forms Automation, an app that runs inside monday.com's Automation Center. Tally Forms Automation needs only a Tally API key and adds conditions, updates to existing items and form embedding, with no separate workflow tool to run.
The options compared
| Zapier | Make or another workflow tool | Your own webhook code | Tally Forms Automation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where you set it up | Zapier’s editor | That tool’s editor | Code you write and host | monday.com’s Automation Center |
| What you pay for | A Zapier plan, billed by usage | That tool’s plan | Hosting and developer time | The app’s plan, through the monday.com marketplace |
| Skills needed | No code | No code, more options | A developer | No code |
| Only some responses | Filter steps | Filters and routers | Whatever you code | Templates for one answer, a text check or a number check |
| Update an existing item | Search and update steps | Search and update modules | Whatever you code | Match on an answer, such as an email |
| Embed the form in monday.com | Not part of the workflow | Not part of the workflow | Not part of the code | In item views and dashboards |
| Who maintains the connection | You, in Zapier | You, in that tool | You, in your code | The app’s developer |
Workflow tools change their connectors and plans often, so check their current pages.
With a workflow tool, every event passes through steps you build and maintain:
- Tally response
- Zapier or Make
- Your Zap's steps
- Your board
With a monday.com app, the automation lives on the board:
- Tally response
- Tally Forms Automation
- Your board
Zapier, Make and other workflow tools
Zapier, Make, Pabbly Connect, Pipedream and similar tools all have a trigger for new Tally responses and actions for monday.com. You connect both accounts, map each answer to a column and add steps for filters or lookups. They’re a good fit when the response also goes to other apps, such as your email tool or a spreadsheet.
The trade-off is a second subscription and a second place to maintain. Each step that runs counts toward that tool’s plan.
Your own code
Tally can send each response to a webhook URL. A small service can receive it and create or update items through the monday.com API.
- Tally response
- Webhook to your service
- monday.com API
- Item on your board
This gives you full control and no per-task pricing. It also makes you responsible for hosting, retries when monday.com is busy, API changes and security. It’s a good fit for teams that already run their own integrations.
Tally Forms Automation
Tally Forms Automation is a monday.com marketplace app. You add a Tally API key once, and each automation reads like a monday.com sentence:
Account When a new entry in Form is received and only if the answer to Question is Answer create an Item/Subitem in this Group/Item with this Data
- 7 templates. Create an item or subitem, post a response as an update, update matching items or subitems, or create an item only for a specific answer, a text check or a number check.
- Hidden fields. Map them to columns and use them in the text condition.
- Files and signatures arrive as links to the files in Tally.
- Embedding. Show a Tally form in an item view or on a dashboard, without an API key.
- monday Workflows. The app’s trigger starts your own multi-step workflows.
Which one to pick
- Responses only go to monday.com: Tally Forms Automation keeps everything on the board.
- Responses also feed other apps: Zapier, Make or another workflow tool.
- You have developers and want full control: your own webhook code.
Moving a Zap to Tally Forms Automation
- Create an API key in Tally and add it in the Account field of a template.
- Pick the template that matches what your Zap does, and choose the same form.
- Map the same answers to the same columns.
- Submit a test response and check the item.
- Turn the Zap off, so each response is handled once.
Only responses submitted after you create the automation reach monday.com, so keep the Zap on until step 4 works.
Plans are on the Tally Forms Automation pricing page. For everything the app does, read the Tally monday.com integration guide.
Some screens shown on this site are illustrations, so yours may look a little different.
Frequently asked questions
Does monday.com have a built-in Tally integration?
No. monday.com's integrations don't include Tally, so you need a workflow tool, your own code or a marketplace app such as Tally Forms Automation.
Can I run Tally Forms Automation and a Zap side by side?
Yes, but not on the same form and board, or every response creates two items. Build the automation, test it, then turn the Zap off.
What does Tally Forms Automation need from Tally?
An API key from your Tally settings. The app uses it to list your forms and questions and to add a webhook to the form when you create an automation. Read more →
How is Tally Forms Automation billed?
Through the monday.com marketplace, with a monthly number of runs. Each run that creates an item, posts an update or updates matches counts as one. Read more →
Start with the complete guide
Complete guideTally monday.com integration: the complete guide
How to send Tally form responses to monday.com, create or update items with conditions and hidden fields, and embed Tally forms in monday.
Read the guide →In the Help Center
- Connect your Tally account with an API key Create a Tally API key, add it in an automation's Account field, connect several Tally accounts and see how the app sets up a webhook for each automation.
- The 7 Tally automation templates Every Tally Forms Automation template as it reads in monday.com, what each field in the sentence means and which template to pick for your workflow.
- Update existing items with Tally responses Match a Tally answer to a board column to update existing items or subitems instead of creating duplicates, and choose what happens when nothing matches.
- Plans and usage How Tally Forms Automation counts automation runs, when usage resets, what happens at your plan's limit and how to upgrade from inside monday.com.
More Tally guides
- How-to
Embed a Tally form in monday.com dashboards and items
Embed a Tally form on a monday.com dashboard or in every item, with no API key, then add an automation to get the answers onto your board.
- How-to
Track UTM campaigns from Tally forms in monday.com
Send UTM values from Tally hidden fields to monday.com columns, then read your board by campaign, source and medium to see which links bring leads.