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Float Reviews: 4.2/5 — Solid Choice
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.
| Capabilities |
API
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| Segment |
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
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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 |
it is easy to use and has a very good layout, you can see everything what you need on one spot
we cannot copy already made postings, which do not come up frequently
schedule overview problems, we see how we can relate on others in our company and being able to ask them for help within our projects
I've been using float for almost a year now. It has made SUCH a difference in allowing our teams to be able to track where and when individuals are working from home/out of office/on holiday on a simple and unified platform. The tool is also incredibly user-friendly and makes it easy for anyone to be able to use it on a day to day basis. I also love how quickly you can add and edit to your projects in your calendar.
Nothing major comes to mind about the tool that I dislike particularly. With that said, some potential improvements could include: - Allowing you to drag and drop to copy a schedule from one person to another, instead of just relocating it - A way to see notes on a project by just hovering over the icon rather than clicking on it - Having additional colors to color code the calendar would also be helpful - we have 15+ people using the platform at a time and it would be useful to be able to have more colors to help organize people's calendars - The relocation of tasks can also sometimes be a bit tricky
This is a huge time saver for me - allows me to easily access calendars of large groups of people without having to view each person's calendar individually. Float also helps keep everyone across both of our offices more organized.
Love seeing what everyone is working on including myself :)
I feel the app could be easier to view. I find it hard to see what I'm doing on mobile.
Being able to see at a glance who has time to fix up last minute jobs.
I like that there isn't a learning curve for using the software, it's self-explanatory. Does what we need it to do for managing our team's capacity.
Sometimes I try to do something but it doesn't allow that specific action. Maybe could be more flexible.
It helps us manage our team's capacity and forecast resources.
How easy it is to see what my team is working on without having to chase them down or click on individual profiles.
It may already exist and I am just not using it to its full capacity but I would like to have external links in each section. Our briefs are on a separate website and it would be easier to use if my team could click and see what they are working on and link directly to that brief.
Clearly seeing how much time we are working on each client by using the colour coded tool is very useful. Without having to open each 'ticket' up I can easily see how is working on what and who is in that day.
It's straight forward and easy to use. It's also very scalable and can be utilized by small or large organizations
Float is missing a copy and paste function! The program also crashes from time to time and can be slow to load.
Resourcing and capacity planning has become a lot more streamlined now that resources within our organization are shared more broadly.
the simplicity of the interface is helpful
lack of features and customizable dashboards
cannot customize
Easy to use Customizable Working at any platform
Does not support agile methodology Absent of some analysis features
I need a tool to show me how all employees are occupied, and if I add some tasks them, it show me , you can not add this tasks to this one, because he is full for next two or three days ..
The ease of use, it's fast an easy to get a quick overview of your tasks
It can be a bit slow, it could be smoothed over a bit better.
Resource planning
ease of use. quickly access vital schedule info
could have a few more ways to view information.
allows everyone to know what the team is working on
Easy to use, and best of all quick to understand. With minimal learning upfront, you can create a functioning timeline easily
It can be difficult to have a clear overview of all projects on going, without having to manually close every line
It helps manage resource internally
Ease of use and a clean smooth experience with no clutter
Flexibility of days - not supporting splitting a day to hours
sync between other team members - who's doing what, when and where
Really easy to use. very practicle. I can easily understand what's going on in the company.
It would be great to have an app on mobile as well.
knowing who is free for the moment.
Ease of input Ease of moving projects around
Clunky on mobile Live refresh doesnt work all of the time
We are able to track projects from start to finish and add details when we need to.
Easy to use, intuitive user interface and experience
Missing some functionality that I would like to have used
Viewing overall team capacity and resourcing. Able to allocate resources more efficiency and increase overall transparency.
Float is easy to use and can be picked up in minutes, allowing anyone to become quickly acquainted and start making collaborative resource decisions.
Float could do with some further integration of other common project management tools and features. It is good at what it does but I would like to see them produce a wider software suite which includes other resource management tools such as time logging.
Out team is able to work collaboratively and effectively to solve resource issues using float in a digital design space.
I like being able to see the full overview of everyone's activities, tasks, and projects in the office at once but then search through and see only the projects I want to see or am currently working on to clear out the schedule so I can focus. I love also having specific tasks within projects, as many have long lead times and deadlines split among many different individuals.
This is may be more of a problem on our end - but we have so many projects concurrently running that we ran out of colors that really contrast to visualize who is working on what at a glance. Our office also doesn't quite function by hours per day or billable hours, so it can feel strange to arrange the days like that - however, it's helpful to arrange things by hour to sort out your day and workflow. I would also like if it integrated into our dropbox or google docs accounts - if we could pin or upload files to specific tasks. That would be a great feature to have in the future.
Because we have so many projects and such a small staff, it's helpful to be able to look at Float and see exactly who is working on what. Also there are very long leads on projects vs. shorter term timelines on projects that are currently happening, so it's helpful to be able to integrate both in one view.
I'm using Float via Browser as an employee in an advertising agency. It's very clearly, well structured and has some useful features.
Some of it's functionalities are a little bit hard to find, for example the different view options.
Altogether Float is a very convenient Tool with good overviews and functionalities. In the company I'm working for, Float is used as a Human Ressource Management and Job Overview Tool.
Float is quick and easy to use. It takes no time at all to create a new project, add resources and allocate the resources time on the project. It's also easy for our team members to login and see their allocation for the coming weeks.
I haven't found a way to zoom in. The blocks are sometimes difficult to see. I've tried only selecting one person but that doesn't change the size or give me the ability to adjust the zoom.
We use Float for a resource allocation overview. We don't get into the day to day details. We use it to show a projects length, who is assigned to the project and how many hours a day they should be spending on this project to forecast whether they should be assigned to any new projects coming in.
Nice modern UI, simple to use and user friendly.
Performance is a bit lacking for many entries. Pricing is steep for bigger companies.
Project and team planning.
Simple to use, easy user interation. Is very powerfull tool for the core functions .
non or low customization on reports. i wish i could pre define filters and how the report is made.
knowing where we are spending the resources, and in such way to be more produtive.
User friendly interface Easy to see and mange schedule
The software does what it's suppose to do, so nothing to mention that would qualify as a con.
Overview of schedules for employees and managers. This makes resource planning a lot easier.
Easy to use and visual making for quick and easy viewing of resources being managed for my team.
Look and feel could do with a little more polish.
SIngle repositiory to view resource bookings and availability. The visual style makes for easy referencing and time efficiency.
i like how easy it is to use and how it takes in to considerations real working environments
Sometimes it can lag especially when trying to find something.
scheduling for large creative team
Pretty good overview of all task within the team and nice layout
The website might be sometimes very laggy as you keep adding the tasks
Having good overview of all tasks make our team more flexible and agile, which we value a lot.
The UI is good and is very useful to track all my sprints in the company
Sometimes figure out what can or can't do is a little bit hard and maybe the list visualization is not super intuitive to
Organization among springs
Very easy to understand and use, requires almost no team training at all.
It's been getting a bit more complicated and slow with every improvement. I hope this can be solved soon, because I love this tool.
We can see what the teams are doing so clearly, and they have instant and easy access to their tasks.
Easy to use, and colour coded blocks of time allocation make using the system, much simpler to understand and interact with. Recent addition of the endless scroll / fewer load times has made the experience much more usable too.
Still some load times / lag of the system still gets in the way of quickly searching / scrolling for the information I need
Time and resource allocation for employees and clients
The ease of use of the product. Everything is intuitive and straight forward.
Slow loading times and the scrolling between weeks for multiple employees at once.
Weekly planning is running much more smoothly with the use of Float.
Float gives me an instant view of what my team is working on day to day and in future. The filters allow me to show just the information I need. Tags allow project managers to book the correct resources for specific tasks.
The interface was very slow to scroll, however a recent update improved this. A feature I would personally like to see is history, as currently there is no way to see if a booking has been pulled or moved.
Allowing project managers to book developers themselves based on tags for disciplines. It saves me having to do all resourcing myself.
