Last Updated: December 30, 2025

Dispatcher’s Columnizer is how we turn “one big address” into useful, filterable columns (City, State, Zip, etc.). This page is also the canonical explanation of the plan limits you’ll see in pricing.

What “Columnizer” means

Most boards store addresses as a single value (for example a monday.com Location column). That’s great for showing a pin on a map, but it’s hard to automate with:

• Filters: “Show only items in CA”
• Automations: “If City is New York, assign to NYC team”
• Ops reporting: “Count stops by Zip Code”

Columnizer solves this by parsing each address and writing structured values into separate columns—typically:

• Street / Address line
• City
• State / Region
• Zip / Postal Code

The result is a board that behaves like a real dataset, not free‑form text.

How it works (high level)

• Input: your board’s address/location values
• Processing: address parsing runs in the background
• Output: structured “geo” columns are updated so you can filter/sort/automate

Because this work is done asynchronously, it can take up to ~15 minutes after you add or update an item for new values/columns to update.

Plans overview (what each tier unlocks)

Dispatcher has a few different “shapes” of plans:

• Trial: full functionality for up to 30 latest items on each board so you can validate your setup.
• Map view only: map visualization + filtering + editing items directly from the map.
• Maps and routing: map view + routing features + export.
• Maps, routing and Columnizer (100 / 500 / 1000): adds background processing to split locations into Address/City/State/Zip columns.
• Enterprise: for teams who need Columnizer processing beyond 1,000 latest stops.

The key distinction: routing is interactive, but columnizing is background processing — so it’s quota-based.

What counts as a “stop” (for Columnizer tiers)

A stop is an item that has a parseable address/location value in the Location column(s) you configured for columnizing.

The 100 / 500 / 1000 “latest stops” limit (quota)

When you pick a tier (100 / 500 / 1000), we only process up to that many items per month—starting with your most recently added items.

This keeps processing predictable and ensures the most relevant, newest “stops” get columnized first.

If you have more items than your tier

We catch up over time.

Example:

• You have 700 items
• You’re on the 500 tier
• On install we process the latest 500
• On your next monthly renewal we can process the remaining 200, leaving you with 300 “unused” capacity
• As new items come in, we columnize them (usually within ~15 minutes)

Do unused stops roll over?

No — the quota resets on renewal. If you don’t use all capacity in a month, it does not carry into the next month.

Pro tip: tier up to catch up, then tier down

If you have a lot of items you need columnized initially (migration / import), start with the higher tier so we can process everything you already have. Once you’re caught up and only need ongoing processing for new items, you can switch to a smaller tier and pay for only what you use monthly.

One more gotcha: the quota is account-wide

This limit is not per board—it’s across your monday.com account.

If you don’t need all items columnized, consider keeping only the items you care about on a dedicated board. You’ll stay within quota and new items will be processed promptly.

How the trial differs from paid Columnizer tiers

The trial is designed for evaluation:

• It’s “full functionality”, but on a small slice of data: up to 30 latest items per board.
• It’s best to spin up a dedicated board (or keep groups small) to quickly validate how filtering and workflows will behave.

If you like the result but your production boards are larger, choose a Columnizer 100/500/1000 plan (which uses an account-wide quota).

Routing-related limits you may notice

Routing is separate from Columnizer processing and is designed to stay responsive:

• Custom route (drag & drop): up to 25 stops at a time
• Best route (optimization): up to 12 stops at a time

Enterprise (more than 1,000 latest stops)

If you need the app to process more than 1,000 latest stops, contact us at [email protected] and we’ll assist you.

Need help?

If you want help designing the best column setup for your workflow (City/State/Zip splits, routing use-cases, etc.), email us at [email protected].