Float Reviews & Product Details

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)

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

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

Helps me in knowing the long term and short term plannings

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Better then the alternatives used till date.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes the interface takes a bit too long to load.

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

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

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

Fluid reorganising of people throughout the week

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

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

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

Ease of adding and archiving employees is good.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Simplistic UI PTO Option Calendar Integration (Needs Improvement)

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.

Timesheets for billing customers

easy to use, good overview, app functionality

no forecast, not so much functions, search for projects

overview of the staffing of our employee

Float is very straightforward and easy to use.

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

Streamlines reserving equipment and shows what equipment is available

Time planning. The ease of scheduling team members time.

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

Time scheduling and resourcing