Advanced Time Triggers vs Precise Triggers (2026)

Published October 2026 · 6 min read · By Lucas Milanez, who builds Precise Triggers

TL;DR: Both apps fire monday.com actions from the date and time in a column, which monday's native "when date arrives" can't do. Advanced Time Triggers lives inside monday's automation builder, is listed in the marketplace, supports recurrence and is cheaper, but it checks every 15 minutes. Precise Triggers fires within seconds and handles subitems, with three built-in actions and no marketplace listing. If a 15-minute window is fine, Advanced Time Triggers is probably the better buy. If reminders are short (15 or 30 minutes before a call) or deadlines are tight, the delay matters and Precise Triggers fits better.

I build Precise Triggers, so read this with that in mind. Facts about Advanced Time Triggers come from its own listing and blog (linked below) as of October 2026. If something changed, tell me and I'll fix it.

Side by side

	Advanced Time Triggers	Precise Triggers
Where you set it up	monday's automation builder (new "date and time arrives" triggers)	A board view inside monday
When it fires	Checks at :00, :15, :30 and :45, so up to 15 min after the time	Within 30 seconds; a few seconds in our production tests
Before / after offsets	Minutes, hours, days	Presets: 5 min to 4 h, 1-2 days, 1-4 weeks before; 15 min to 1 day after
Actions	Any action in monday's builder	Notify a person, change a status, send a webhook (custom JSON)
Recurrence	Yes (e.g. first Tuesday of the month)	No
Subitems	Not mentioned in its listing	Yes, subitem date columns
Marketplace	Listed (about 730 installs)	Not listed; installed directly
Pricing model	Per number of automations, unlimited actions	Per automations fired each month

Precision: when 15 minutes matters

Advanced Time Triggers says it plainly in its own guide: it checks every 15 minutes, so a 3:07 PM trigger runs at 3:15 PM. For many uses that's fine. A task due "today at 17:00" doesn't care whether the status flips at 17:00 or 17:12.

It matters when the lead time is short. Say a client call is at 14:07 and you want the owner notified 15 minutes before, at 13:52. With checks at :45 and :00, the reminder goes out at 14:00: seven minutes before the call instead of fifteen. With a 30-minute reminder the delay eats up to half of it.

Precise Triggers schedules a job for each item at its exact moment, so the same reminder lands at 13:52. That's the main reason it exists: SLA warnings, client calls, shift handoffs and launches where the minute is the point.

Where Advanced Time Triggers is the better choice

Any monday action. Because its triggers live in the native builder, you can follow them with any action monday offers, including integrations. Precise Triggers has three actions (anything else goes through its webhook to Make, Zapier or your API).
Recurrence. "Every first Monday at 9:00" is built in. Precise Triggers only fires relative to a date in a column.
Price. Its plans count automations, not runs, with unlimited actions: free for 1 automation, then $6 for 3, $10 for 5, $20 for 10 and $30 for 15 per month (listing). Precise Triggers is $19/month for 500 fired automations or $49 for 5,000. For most volumes, theirs costs less.
Marketplace. It's listed in the monday marketplace. Precise Triggers isn't (monday declined the listing as too similar to existing apps), so you install it directly and monday shows a notice that it hasn't reviewed the app.

Where Precise Triggers is the better choice

Timing to the minute. Short reminders arrive when you set them, not up to 15 minutes later.
Subitems. Each subitem's own date and time can drive its own reminder. See subitem reminders X hours before the date.
Webhooks with your payload. Send a JSON body you define (with the item ID and times as variables) to Slack, Make or any HTTPS endpoint, at the scheduled moment. See webhook on a date column.
Condition checked when it fires. "Only if Status is not Done" is evaluated at that moment, so items closed in the meantime stay quiet.

Other options

monday's native "when date arrives" runs once a day at a fixed hour, which is enough when the time of day doesn't matter (why it fires at the wrong time). Zapier, Make and n8n can poll the board and act, with polling delay and per-task cost (full comparison). There are also other apps, such as Time Based Automations & Reminders and Automato, that I haven't compared in detail here.

How to decide in one minute

Is "up to 15 minutes late" acceptable for your reminders? If yes, start with Advanced Time Triggers' free plan.
Do you need recurrence or a monday action outside notify / status / webhook? Advanced Time Triggers.
Do your reminders have short lead times, tight SLAs, or live on subitems? Try Precise Triggers for 14 days and compare on a real board.

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