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Float Reviews & Product Details

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What is Float?

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.

Company Float
Year founded 2012
Company size 51-200 employees
Headquarters New York, NY, United States
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Capabilities
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Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone
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Languages English
Float Features
Alerts and Notifications
Approval Workflows
Budget Management
Calendar Integration
Capacity Planning
Collaboration Tools
Customizable Dashboards
Document Management
Drag and Drop Interface
Gantt Charts
Integration with Other Tools
Invoice Management
Mobile Access
Multi-Project Management
Project Planning
Real-Time Updates
Reporting and Analytics
Resource Allocation
Resource Forecasting
Resource Pool Management
Resource Request Management
Role-Based Access Control
Scheduling
Skill Matching
Task Management
Time Off Management
Time Tracking
Utilization Tracking
What-If Analysis
Workload Management
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1,237 Float Reviews
4.2 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 17, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
MM
Mathias M.
.Net Engineer
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"Float ; An useful software for an easy planning"
What do you like best about Float?

Overall planning for teams, easy day-by-day task management, task categories, projet / customer management, api to retrieve planning on other software (such as notes calendar)

What do you dislike about Float?

Still quite difficult to manage 1/2 day task, no way to plan meeting easily

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Team management has always been quite messy on our teams, and no overall was available with Notes calendar, so Float has been worshiped when we got it

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 17, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.0
SS
Srivathsan S.
Senior Developer
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"Float - Plan Ahead, To keep it smooth"
What do you like best about Float?

Helps me in knowing the long term and short term plannings

What do you dislike about Float?

No notifications when there is a change, not sure if it is switched off in my company

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me know the projects I would work in the future

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 17, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
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álvaro S.
Product Designer
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"Great product to keep tracking of your team's taks"
What do you like best about Float?

What I like the most is the easy navigation and display of the information. The whole team knows at a glance what other team members are all the time and that's really useful when you have to collaborate.

What do you dislike about Float?

Sometimes the font size feels a bit small. Also, it would be cool to have integration with other apps like Slack or Google Docks in order to share some notes.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

The whole team knows what other team members are all the time

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 17, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
MK
Mark K.
Project Manager
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"Mark Kerrs Review"
What do you like best about Float?

The ability to have Float synced up with our offices #slack group. Float also has a very clean look, easy to see whats going on and check others schedules.

What do you dislike about Float?

Seems a little resource heavy on my work computer. Sometimes when scrolling from left to right or vise versa, the program likes to hang on me and then shoot me a few months ahead.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Schedule coordination among other project mangers, seems to make it much easier. Less time over scheduling sub contractors as its easy to just login float and check the open schedules.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 17, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
MS
M. S.
Advisor
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"Intuitive dashboard yet not fully grown"
What do you like best about Float?

Clean interface and handy search bar to select users. The Slack integration is also something that looks promising and I'll try soon.

What do you dislike about Float?

The lack of an android application makes this an application primarily focused on iPhone users. This is a bit more troublesome in our company as there's a mixed device landscape.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better then the alternatives used till date.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 16, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AC
Andrew C.
Software Engineer
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"Solid toold"
What do you like best about Float?

I like its drag and drop features, and how you can efficiently assign many users big blocks of time

What do you dislike about Float?

While basic concepts are hard to grasp, advanced features come with a bit of a learning curve

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

We assign developers time with float and devs use it as a guide for how to manage their daily billable hours

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 16, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
KW
Kalyn W.
Casting And Demand Admin
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"Really helpful resource tracking tool"
What do you like best about Float?

Fast and easy to use interface, flexibility in planning possible future projects.

What do you dislike about Float?

The reporting tool works well but could provide more detailed reports.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Float to manage resources across multiple projects and forecast future resource requirements.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 16, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
JH
Julie H.
Jr Motion Designer
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"Does the job"
What do you like best about Float?

The interface is very simple, pretty, and user-friendly! It's nice to see what projects I have coming up ahead of time - that way I can prepare for them accordingly. I also get an idea of which projects to prioritize based on where they are on a calendar day.

What do you dislike about Float?

I don't make much use of the other tabs besides the Schedule tab. I'm often prompted to update it in the middle of the day, without knowing exactly what updates are taking place.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

I think it really helps employees to know what projects are coming up. We also have more than one producer, so it helps the producers schedule and prioritize time as needed on designers/dev/motion artists, etc.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 16, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
DM
Daniel M.
Web Developer
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"Daniel Medyckyj-Scott Float Review"
What do you like best about Float?

The thing I like best is the ability to be emailed my daily schedule every day. The colorful calendar interface is super easy to view. The general UI is clear and easy to use for a range of different users. The ability to filter the calendar down so as to only see a selection of users schedules is good too.

What do you dislike about Float?

Sometimes the interface takes a bit too long to load.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Clearly outlines my tasks for the day. Means the overall productivity is higher.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 16, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AL
Andrew L.
Consultant
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"Fantastic"
What do you like best about Float?

Easy and quick visibility of people and projects distributed across the organisation

What do you dislike about Float?

UI can be unweildy if a person has a large number of projects under their name

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fluid reorganising of people throughout the week

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 22, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.0
AK
Anthony K.
Lead Sales Executive
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"Makes sceduling easier"
What do you like best about Float?

I love the control panel user interface. It is a web based solution that accepts one to drag and drop schedules. one can also have many people under one project and assign tasks

What do you dislike about Float?

Adding departments is hidden and the specific departments are not present in the panel as a drop down

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Resource management was quite a task and it is now way easier.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 31, 2023
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Overall Rating:
3.5
LO
Lauren O.
Founder
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"Overly complicated"
What do you like best about Float?

Ease of adding and archiving employees is good.

What do you dislike about Float?

Inability to add pass thru expenses to a project. Overly complicated reporting. Not a ton of flexibility in spreading hours across projects / people.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's our time tracking software and it is our reporting tool to check project health.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 31, 2023
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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Warren B.
Director Of Customer Success Nsw
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"Daily float user"
What do you like best about Float?

Great for seeing how busy my team is and ensuring everyone is assigned to billable work

What do you dislike about Float?

When dealing with lots of small projects and activities, the view gets quickly crowded, it doesnt easily provide a summary view. The reporting is hard to understand initially.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing multiple teams and global resources a large volume of projects.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 30, 2023
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Overall Rating:
3.5
JP
Jacopo P.
Founder
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"Resource allocation spreadsheet, with super-powers"
What do you like best about Float?

Float clearly helps with resources allocation within my department, simplyfying the work with the other managers and showing in a crystal clear way what the priorities should be to anyone.

What do you dislike about Float?

The calendar metaphor: I don't care if a resource works on a project on monday or friday, this is not how allocation usually works, that's micromanagement!

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allocate resources on different projects, tweaking hours to reflect the business priorities.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 30, 2023
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Overall Rating:
3.5
SK
Surhay K.
Founder
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"Production Management Software"
What do you like best about Float?

It's web based and easy to use. You can track based on projects or people.

What do you dislike about Float?

You cannot see the projection of the finance accurately as if team members forget to log their time. This is a big disadvantage and would be the reason why wouldn't reccomend.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping on top of team performance. Creating resource allocations Seeing other peoples timeline

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 22, 2023
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Overall Rating:
3.5
AH
Ali H.
Founder
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"Good program for scheduling"
What do you like best about Float?

Scheduling tasks for the team and monitoring project spend on Reports. Use it to report sick day, annual leave, all in one place is really helpful. Good for a small team.

What do you dislike about Float?

There is no way of actually tracking time spent it would be really useful to have a timer so team members can accurately time how long they spend on tasks. At the moment we are all making educated guesses at the end of each day / week. Also not clear how to lock task list after people have already logged into them. Another issue I've found is that creatives can delete projects assigned to them, it would be useful if they could pass it back to the allocator so they are aware the task was unable to be completed.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps as PM to allocate tasks for the week ahead so that the creative team can easily see what is ahead.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jun 30, 2022
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Overall Rating:
3.5
SZ
Sherry Z.
Analytics Engineer
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"Calendar integration can be improved to boost usability"
What do you like best about Float?

Simplistic UI PTO Option Calendar Integration (Needs Improvement)

What do you dislike about Float?

Calendar Integration should be improved in the following area: 1. ability to choose calendars to sync. 2. sync more than one calendar and choose the project each calendar goes into. 3. Only sync current and future events.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Timesheets for billing customers

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jun 28, 2022
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Overall Rating:
3.5
JP
Jakob P.
Manager
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"It works"
What do you like best about Float?

easy to use, good overview, app functionality

What do you dislike about Float?

no forecast, not so much functions, search for projects

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

overview of the staffing of our employee

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 28, 2022
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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Christopher A.
Qc Engineer 1
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"Lack of features leads to straightforward interface"
What do you like best about Float?

Float is very straightforward and easy to use.

What do you dislike about Float?

Lack of features limits functionality in tasks, such as scheduling over a time frame that spans more than one day

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streamlines reserving equipment and shows what equipment is available

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 28, 2022
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Overall Rating:
3.5
SL
Spyridon L.
Lead Developer
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"Nice work organizing tool"
What do you like best about Float?

Time planning. The ease of scheduling team members time.

What do you dislike about Float?

The ui is a little bit misleading. To much information when you look the calendar

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Time scheduling and resourcing

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