Rowhouse vs Conga Grid
Conga Grid is a liked product with twelve years of features behind it. Rowhouse does less, publishes more about its limits, keeps your configuration as metadata, and costs nothing per seat.
Which one, when
- Your power users live in a reading pane with record detail, Chatter and charts, or launch Conga Composer from grid rowsConga Grid. Rowhouse has no equivalent.
- Most people need to edit lists at volume: paste a column from a spreadsheet, fill down, undo, save thousands of recordsRowhouse. Conga publishes 100 rows per paste and 1,000 rows per view.
- You want grid configuration to deploy like the rest of your org, through a sandbox and a change setRowhouse. Conga’s configuration is records in its own packaged objects.
- You already own Conga Grid and renewal is a year awayKeep it for the people who need it, and put Rowhouse on everyone else’s lists. Both can run side by side.
Where Conga Grid is the better choice
- Breadth. The reading pane, grid graphs, find and replace, batch actions for tasks, notes and campaign members, the approval center, drill up and drill down. Rowhouse does not try to match it.
- Related lists beside the grid. Related lists as reading-pane tabs, next to record detail. Rowhouse shows and edits a related record’s fields as columns and opens related records as child tables under each row, not in a pane.
- Procurement paperwork. SOC 2 and ISO reports from a large vendor, which a free package from a smaller company does not replace.
- Undo and redo
- Row grouping
- Import and upsert
- Mobile
- Row actions, flows and quick actions
- Keyboard navigation
- Large lists
- Experience Cloud (in part)Coming soon
What your users would work in
A grid your team edits like a spreadsheet
Grouped by stage with sums, overdue dates in red, big deals in green — every rule set on the Grid Admin tab, without code.
Built on a tab in Salesforce
One editor for the grid, its columns, display rules, filters, actions and child tables, checked as you type. Everything you build is Custom Metadata in your org.
Rowhouse and Conga Grid, side by side
| Capability | Rowhouse | Conga Grid |
|---|---|---|
| Editing | ||
| Inline edit | Yes | Yes |
| Mass edit: many cells, one save | Yes | Yes |
| Update a field across a selection | Yes | Yes |
| Inline create (add a row) | Yes | Yes |
| Delete from the grid | Yes | Yes |
| Undo and redo | Yes | Partial |
| Copy and paste Excel ranges | Yes | Yes |
| Finding and shaping | ||
| Resize and reorder columns | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-column sort | Yes | Yes |
| Filtering | Yes | Yes |
| Row grouping | Yes | Partial |
| Subtotals and aggregates | Yes | Yes |
| Conditional formatting | Yes | Yes |
| Related data | ||
| Several objects in one grid | Partial | Yes |
| Parent and child expand under a row | Yes | Yes |
| Moving data | ||
| Export | Yes | Yes |
| Import and upsert | Yes | Partial |
| Views and placement | ||
| Named, shareable saved views | Partial | Yes |
| Lightning page embed | Yes | Yes |
| Flow screen component | Roadmap | Not documented |
| Experience Cloud | Roadmap | Partial |
| Mobile | Partial | No |
| Actions | ||
| Row actions, flows and quick actions | Yes | Partial |
| Access, security and scale | ||
| Keyboard navigation | Yes | Partial |
| Screen reader | Yes | Not documented |
| Field, object and sharing security | Yes | Yes |
| Shield Platform Encryption | Partial | Yes |
| Large lists | Yes | Partial |
Three years, at 25, 50 and 250 users
Conga Grid’s license is a per-user list price, so its cost grows with every person added. Rowhouse has no license fee at any size; what it costs is the time to run it.
Where your grids are kept
Grid configuration (Conga Grid View and 15 other packaged custom objects, plus generated Visualforce pages).
Seven Custom Metadata types in your org: built in a sandbox, moved in a change set, kept in source control, and never overwritten by an upgrade.
The difference that lasts
The features will move — both products ship. What will not move is the shape of each one. Conga Grid is an application you buy seats for, running in a Visualforce page, with its configuration stored as data inside the package. Rowhouse is a component you place on a page, built from Lightning Web Components, with its configuration stored as Custom Metadata you own.
That difference decides three things that matter at renewal: what each extra person costs (Conga’s grows with every seat, Rowhouse’s does not), whether a grid can move from a sandbox to production in a change set (Rowhouse’s can), and what is left if you stop paying (with Conga Grid, the configuration goes with the package).
Where Rowhouse is clearly ahead
Editing at volume. Paste up to 10,000 cells at once — refused whole if larger, never cut short — fill down with Ctrl+D, and undo up to 100 steps, where a 500-cell paste is one step. A save goes in batches of 200 so the org’s own validation rules, triggers and flows run as usual, and a record Salesforce refuses keeps its value and says why while the rest save.
Limits you can check. Conga publishes its ceilings, which is more than most vendors do. Rowhouse publishes its ceilings and a benchmark measured up to 50,000 rows, with the method and the script.
An audit trail. Turn it on per grid and every change is logged with its old and new value; if the log cannot be written, the change is not made.
Checked 2026-10-07; due for a re-check by 2027-04-07. Conga Grid’s values are its vendor’s own published claims; nothing was installed or tested. Something wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.
Rowhouse vs Conga Grid: questions
Can I run Rowhouse and Conga Grid in the same org?
Yes. They are separate packages with separate configuration. A common split is Conga Grid for the ten or so people who need its reading pane and Composer integration, and Rowhouse for everyone else’s list editing.
Does Rowhouse replace Conga Grid’s reading pane?
No. Rowhouse opens related records as child tables under each row, each a full grid with its own Save bar, but it has no reading pane with record detail, Chatter or charts.
Which one handles more rows?
Conga publishes 1,000 rows per view. Rowhouse loads 10,000 rows when a grid opens and up to 100,000 as you scroll, and publishes a benchmark at 50,000 rows with its script, so you can measure it yourself.
Why is Rowhouse free when Conga Grid costs $18 per user?
Rowhouse is Apache-2.0 open source from Kugamon, whose business is revenue operations software rather than grids. There is no paid tier to hold back and no feature behind a gate.
Three things you can verify without asking us
Nobody should pay per seat to edit a thousand rows.
Compare it on your own data: install it beside the grid you have, and keep both until you are sure.