Float Reviews & Product Details
Float is one of the best resource management tools for robust scheduling and time tracking, trusted by companies like BuzzFeed and Deloitte. Project scheduling is easy with its click-and-create and drag-and-drop interfaces and users can set tasks easily and assign them to the relevant people/teams. Float’s scheduling tool also is simple and visual, giving you a clear picture of your team’s workload, as well as project progress all from a single dashboard. With Float, you can easily plan, manage and monitor projects and teams. Time tracking is simple, task management is streamlined, and the platform provides accurate forecasting based on gathered data.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
Working with float in conjunction with my managers has made keeping track of my projects and my time sheets so easy. It really has been a huge help. Instead of going through emails or memos I can login to Float and see my entire work history for the month.
I haven't had anything to dislike. It really has made one part of my job that I dislike much easier.
Less time doing timesheets, more consistency with my hours and my manager's records. Less back and forth wasting time over discrepancies in the schedule.
Scheduling time across different teams, and getting an overveiw of everyone in the company to book people.
Not much, the only thing is that some times when you assign a lot of people to the same task, and one person moves/reschedules that task, it moves all of them.
Saving a lot of time, briefing7meetings etc.
Everything about it is super useful -- extending tasks to span other days, splitting tasks, colour-coding by client, easily dragging tasks around, adding notes to each task, etc.
I wish they had a membership for single-person use.
My work follows a 2-week sprint and I use float to organize my day-to-day to keep me on track for the 2 weeks. I can also easily move tasks around if they spill over to the next sprint.
We're able to see and plan our leaves perfectly.
Nothing. Everything in this platform is easy to use
Nothing, it benefits my work- life balance.
I find float very user-friendly, took me no time to get going on it. I can manage my time effectively by knowing what is coming up next for myself and the team.
I do not have any 'dislikes' at this time when it comes to Float. I would like to see additional features in the future but would like them to keep their aesthetic.
Scheduling all of our projects while creating transparency for all members of the consulting team regardless of level or tenture. I was able to quickly trust the process because of Float.
Float helps me a lot in organizing my schedules
I wish there is an android app available
It solves unorganized tables
eay to use, intuitive, and generally user-focussed, I'm really happy with the time and task tracking aspects
bit of a pain to have to scroll down to my name - would imagine it would suck in a larger organisation - maybe there should be a way to keep your tasks at the top?
task management - much easier to prioritise and attend to different responsibilities
I like the easiness of usage for float, it helps the organisation in time management
There is no option to view monthly progress, only weekly
Time management and team capacity/availability
to change the schedule as you want, it very easy to use
i want it as an app on mobilephone to use it out of office
organize my team tasks and time
float helps individual to record timings and can recall what he/she did on a particular day and can also see the data in form of how many hours worked in a week or month.
No disadvantages for using float. interface could have little bit better and of less complexity
float helping to record time in a very organising manner
As the title says, the best thing about Float is how easy it is to use. We're a medium-sized design agency and we looked for ages for a solution to project management that didn't bog us down in admin and could be easily accessed.
It could be better at scheduling holidays, we use Timetastic for this and it would be great if the two could be integrated.
Easy scheduling of projects so the whole team has a clear overview of what they are personally working on and what is in the studio.
Quick and fast set up and time visibility
Negative total float, seems weird. Wondering, how could Float simplify the overlapping works without showing (-)?
No work-conflicts with my several Poject Managers.
I like it; it lets me have good visibility about project resources, and I can also check company resources.
I was not getting used to updating and filling it in at the beginning. But then I realized all the pros that it gives me. Sometimes I am lost in dates.
It gives me the good visibility, I can book people, I can plan project.
I really like how easy it is to use, that's the main thing! I have never used it before but within 15 minutes I'd managed to schedule all my projects. I also like the budget tracking element - I have quite a complicated project with a less than 2% tolerance with the budget and Float has been invaluable helping me track that.
I find it's quite hard to export the data which we need for our invoicing - I end up exporting it in Excel and then having to copy and paste. I would love it if there was some sort of invoicing feature in float so we could generate them at source!
It's helping me monitor the profitability of my projects, it's ensuring our people are not overloaded or not having enough to do - which ensures we can maintain a sustainable velocity across the organisation which is really powerful.
Float helps us visually plan out our week
Nothing really, the keyboard commands can be a bit clunky but the app does what it needs to!
It helps us plan projects and employee leave in 1 UI, which makes long term planning much easier.
It is a modern way of viewing, understanding and manipulating a plan as a schedule, online, anywhere and anytime.
It does have some challenges displaying schedules for larger teams.
It solves how we should dynamically adjust and prebook our team members for project work as well as providing a very user friendly interface for view and edit.
It allows me and my team to work seamlesly, I manage all of our workflow through this product and we have never been more efficent.
nothing at all to be honest, it makes perfect sense and allows me to do more with my team
In advertising scheduling is often a nightmare, this is no longer the case as the whole office can see and work through workflow due to the open nature of the platform.
Float makes tracking time/hours for each project you are assigned to very quick and easy. Each task has its own tab that is very specific to what you are working on.
Logging in time should definitely be the responsibility of the user, however, I think an alert/notification feature to remind users to track their hours would be very useful. I dislike that it is up to managers and higher-ups to reach out about missing days or time.
Float solves the issue of employees being unsure about how often or how little they dedicate time to certain projects; with Float you can visualize in the reports how much time is spent on a task, and this is beneficial in showcasing how your hours are being distributed throughout the day.
Easy to see entire workload at a glance. Powerful filters to show only the information you need.
Can be slow when loading complex views. Some UI elements aren't that intuitive.
Keeping track of a remote team. Visual aid for daily meetings.
Being able to show how busy I am and how I can show when I need work.
When I am updating a job or adding a new job I need to be specific about what I need.
I have not had any to send out.
