Logging my hours on a daily basis is very straight forward. Because Float allows management to "pre-log" hours, I simply need to review and confirm. Awesome!
It has a slight learning curve. I imagine this can turn some people off, but it's a small price to pay.
Management in my company needs to track our productivity and badwidth. Float is a great tool for this.
It was so easy to implement and use. No more using Excel and entering in multiple cells all the time. Additionally, the people who wouldn't use Excel to see their schedule use Float! We also love that it tracks dollars and resources by project. It's giving us visibility in to our work we haven't had before. To see that you are on budget based on team hours is amazing. We also love that we can see how booked our team is at any given time. It helps us allocate resources and shift projects as needed when things get busy. The fact that so many people in our company immediately jumped on board says a lot about the software. We searched and tried a lot of different products before finding and implementing Float. We would highly recommended trying it for your team. It's really affordable and can be started up very quickly.
I wish the program could automatically build schedules using an end date like Microsoft Project but the information is really easy to enter into Float. We do wish Float would come out with a project management software that's as easy to use as their scheduling software!
Float is helping our company adjust pricing on projects. We're learning a lot about how much time is being spent on projects, something we haven't been able to easily track until now.
It's very easy to use and the integration with Asana works quite well.
When working on long projects, I haven't figured out a way to assign long tasks. I ended up doing it week by week.
Resourcing at the agency became easier and more transparent
I was looking for a tool that would allow capacity planning and tracking for a project management team. We needed a tool which allows to share the planning with the client on RO access. This tool simply provided me with all the aspects i wanted. moreover, it's friendlyness and ease of use convinced me (if needed) to select it. A look at the price confirmed my choice. It was without any doubt the best value for money I assessed.
As the team leader and administrator of the Float Application I feel is missing : The report Tab is not available on mobile devices. The capacity report tab is only in hours and we can't have it in load %.
Float is definitively easy to use and still brings me with the expected features. I have no regret on my choice !
We were looking for a product that would help us plan and manage our current and up-coming projects with ease. There were lots of products on the market, but Float stood out from the rest for being very user friendly, responsive to queries and feedback, and for a good price. The reporting tool on Float is great and can be used to filter however you want. This has given us a much better overview of our staffing requirements and patterns.
One of the features we would like to see is different budget currencies available on the same team. Currently you can have one currency per team, but multiple teams. This for us is not practical as we have people on multiple projects that can be different currencies and this would give inaccurate
We have better staffing reporting and long term planning with Float, allowing us to spot gaps in our staffing or workloads and adjust them accordingly where needed.
Float has a lot of features, but one of the most important is the dashboard to overview our projects allocation in one page. It's easy to understand where our team is working on and some possible work gap in our future schedule.
Float has a lot of report options. However, in our company, we always track the Earned value management for our projects. Currently, Float does not support this report. Then, we need to calculate it in an external software. We already got in touch with Float and it's on the track to be developed.
Float helps us to have an overview of our company allocation. It's easy to understand how many people are allocated and available to work on new projects. We use this information to help our commercial area and project management to predict gaps in work and help us to improve the accuracy of our project. Last but not least, using Float we can track our project budgets and always be aware of its financial healthy.
- being able to allocated multiple jobs to one team member - colour coding and access to different - the new feature for dragging jobs down or up for more or less time - reports on individual and team times and capacity - The "Time Off" button - new feature to continuously scroll forward or backwards - The organisation of clients and jobs
- It would be great if we could automatically add our public holidays into float - I don't like that every time I press enter after filling out a field that it adds the job directly onto the calendar - It would be great to be able to zoom into a day view of the whole team with working hours next to it (similar to google calendar)
Tracking projects Laying out timelines for cost estimates Evaluating studio capacity Tracking team leave and overtime
The ability to schedule and log hours per specific client is essential for proper time management and for ensuring that clients aren't over or under serviced. The interface is easy to navigate, and the colour scheme makes it really easy to distinguish tasks. I really like being to move tasks around simply by clicking and dragging. Overall, an easy to use interface that has become essential to my Agency.
When dealing with a lot of colleagues and a lot of clients, sometimes its difficult to distinguish hours logged per client per user or overall hours logged vs hours scheduled.
We charge clients by the hour. However, it was difficult to keep an accurate log of hours serviced per each client as the month went on or as certain tasks arose. Float makes it very easy to schedule the correct number of hours per client into the calendar, and helps us ensure no client is ever serviced too much or not enough based on what they pay us. It also helps us to schedule our week most effectively, by blocking out chunks of time in the day to focus on specific tasks.