Float Reviews: 4.2/5 — Solid Choice

It is easily modified to tailor to your specific needs.

It would be useful if you could enter the number of minutes you spent on a task, instead of half an hour etc.

Realised how long I spend on tasks, and which ones I should speed up on.

It helps you to properly log the time you dedicate to each task.

At first, you need to create templates for each type of project you will work on, otherwise organising your tasks to properly track your time becomes a bit of a nightmare.

It helps to see where resources need to be allocated.

The easy, intuitive nature makes this easily adaptable across a large team

I would like the option to integrate with my team members' calendars

Resource availability

The "Reports" feature provides integrated reporting across our product portfolio.

The "People" tab must be maintained and updated manually on a monthly basis for new hires/terminations to maintain accuracy.

Resource and capacity management planning across an ever changing product portfolio. Cost reporting on a product level basis.

Easy to see what is scheduled. Clear view.

Needs to be easier to find me - logged in user should be more prominant

To find out what work I have been assigned to.

I like that you can easily search and pare down to locate the information you need. Visually it is very appealing and easy to maneuver through.

I do and do not like the holiday feature. I appreciate that you can easily add holidays in different regions, but it’s kind of difficult to customize for a large group. I also have a problem when I am working in Float - the “My projects” “Departments” drop down lingers and I constantly have to click in the search bar to type something to make it go away. Last feature I think could be enhanced - when making changes to an event - there should be a “are you sure” window that pops up to confirm that you do want to delete. I’ve mistakenly made changes before where I didn’t mean to which caused some problems.

I'm scheduling a large number of people for different tasks and using Float makes it easy to visualize and see where I have openings.

I really like the possibility of having a global view of the activities and the possibility of having a fast (very fast) synchronization with the Outlook calendar. Furthermore, it is really useful to assign different roles to people in order to define planning permissions. Also like the possibility to define different project and client for a better organizzation of the tasks over the people of the team

I don't relaly love the graphic style of the calendar / schedule view. Hiding over the weekend it is difficult to see at a glance the separation between the various weeks. Also there is no translation of the portal in Italian, not a serious deficiency, but if there were it would be better :) It also lacks the ability to view your schedule in a daily agenda format in order to have a more precise schedule of your commitments, as you can do through outlook. I think also that a daily email with a recap of the daily schedule can be useful for improve the work.

Float provided me with the opportunity to simplify my work by saving time in resource management. It also provided the company with the opportunity to have a global view of the workload of the different teams.

Float is user friendly and allow you to track progress and schedules for various tasks

I don't like that you can't undo functions and there is a 24 limit on tasks you can log per day

scheduling and progress of task completion. You can monitor all activity in one location and determine what is pending and what is completed

Ease of use and great interface. Very simple to manage our resource and forecasting within this product.

Could do with a few more project management features to become a more advanced product

How to assign resource correctly and forecast resources going forward for project planning

Easy to use interface, good overview of multiple people.

Could not find the option to personalise.

How to align different peoples schedules over different projects.

I've always liked using this app. It's super easy to use, I can access it on my phone too. I really like the fact that I can see other team member schedules as well as my own. It would be amazing if you could build into Float and add the function to do have your own to-do lists. I think it would go great with the scheduling/planning features of the software. Overall, great software that does the job - but could be more useful and embedded into customers' work life with some added features like to-do lists and other planning functionalities.

Sometimes it can be frustrating when I've been double/overbooked for something and I can't reject/appeal/flag the booking in my schedule. It would be nice if I had more flexibility and control over my own schedule without PM's being able to book in whatever they please so that I can raise the double booking without having to reach them via another method of communication or even in person.

Float has made planning my day much easier. Ahead of a project, I'm able to plan and organise wrapping up the current project, so I'm ready for the next one. It gives our team a wider awareness of everyone's time and how we can share the workloads together and prepare ahead for any potential flags. I love using float, but there I do think it could be more integrated with other software. For example, it would be great if I could have my float schedule and my outlook calendar synced so I can see my meetings as well as what projects i'm working on for that relevant day or week.

Easy to set up working hours, teams and to allocate projects and tasks. Very clearly shows pinch points and spare capacity. Functionality to create recurring tasks helps give the work day a more realistic feel and encourages regular use.

If you need to significantly change when you have allocated tasks and/ or whole projects, it can be quite difficult. For these changes a detailed list view of tasks in a project (with date and user) would be helpful.

Big problem we have solved is being able to demonstrate to the business where resourcing issues (specifically staff) is going to create a bottle neck down the road. Also has allowed a much more informed and reason-based estimates on project completions and timescales for resolving new requests.

Everything is nicely laid out and clearly colour coded.

The reload popup that occurs quite often is a little annoying. I can't think of much else.

Organising daily programming team tasks. It's not our main project management tool but it's a great way to clearly see what everyone should be doing on a given day and to plan ahead.

I like the sleek, minimalistic UI. Which is easy to read, and pleasing to look at.

It's disconnected from the other applications that we use, so it isn't in the natural flow of work to go to float and either allocate people or as a developer to check and see what you are assigned to.

Planning for what devs do often seemed to chop and change throughout weeks, thoroughly frustrating devs. Float helped management put what developers were going to be doing down on paper and helped developers know what they were doing in the future as well as what their fellow team members were allocated to as well. However, some management have stopped updating Float with the resource allocation, so it doesn't seeem to have worked as

1. Definitely ease of tracking for team members. 2. Great presentation of each user's data across the board. 3. Easy to add and remove tasks / descriptions.

1. Lack of labels for some details i.e. Legends / Color marking and their meanings. 2. Layout is not easily customized.

We had difficulties tracking user's activities and what tasks are assigned for using Excel, so we always had trouble keeping up with the latest updates. With float it enables scheduling to be done hassle free, and its quite efficient per se, definitely should give it a go to figure out its benefits.

the ease of use this platform. Sometimes it doesnt need to be any feature, just simple as float make schedule perfect

I like to see the feature of seeing other staf schedule. Because human brain is full of curiousity

The benefit of using float is we can see what time the deadline meet

UI is simple and nice - I enjoy the ease of use and drag and drop of tasks.

After normal corporate hours ability to add tasks it looks a little clunky and could use to be tidied up as sometimes projects may take some time to complete.

Problems are listed above such as the after regular hours ability to add tasks it looks messy - benefits is too see a streamlined interface of where each user/colleague is working on.

My favourite part about float is the ease to manage client work with colour coding and the capability to edit and view other colleagues schedules

Float could be improved with functions such as duplicate and reoccurring tasks

The ability to view colleagues schedules and the schedules of rooms has made office work much easier

Overall, it is very easy to input project and hours.

There are project report and people report that are provided by Float. But I feel like there isn't a bridge to connect people and project. In many situations, we want to see what kinds of projects that people are working on. For example, for person A, we want to see a report that show for this week, A is working on project B for 4 hours a day, 20 hours a week, project C for 2 hours a day, 10 hours a week and project D for 2 hours a day, 10 hours a week, etc. If you can connect project and people, that would be very helpful for us to plan resource and estimate the cost for every project/client.

I have to use float API to connect people with project by myself, this is helpful for my company to plan resource and estimate profitability. But if float can provide more features so I don't need to do it by myself that's better!

I like how it keeps track of my hours for each project I am working on, and that I can list what tasks I completed for the project.

I wish the project name showed up before the task name in my list so I can more readily see what each project is. I wish I could stay logged in and not have to log back in every time I go to the software.

We are trying to solve how much time we are actually spending on each project that we have going on in the office. Previously, we had no way to track the hours that we have worked, and were not sure if we were accurately estimating the amount of hours that would take to complete a project.

Float is extremely easy to use and you can work on it like a pro from day one. Its dashboard is quite clean and uncluttered. I can see mine and my team's performance and plan clearly on the dashboard. We can send updates, assign its priority and plan everything in advance with its help.

Its quite an amazing planner but it still has a long way to go. It still doesn't offer some features such as proper functioning search bar, its dashboard is quite small, etc. But probably the whole point in using this software is less is more.

Planning and updating tasks among team members. Keeping the track and maintaining workflows.

Helps scheduling - allows for specific or general details, depending on your needs

Can sometimes be a bit fiddly to use, especially when first getting used to it

Allows for members of our team to all know what their tasks are, and what others are working on

The UX/UI is intuitive and clean, it makes working in it easy. Being able to drag and drop is great and having info on each card is helpful too.

I've only been using Float for less than 6 months so I don't have a major dislike for anything as of now.

We use float to help manage our project resourcing and allocation. Float helps us to easily visualize who is currently working on what projects, and if we will be out of bandwidth in the future.

Simple and clean overview of resource planning. Easy to adjust and play with.

Seems a bit slow when including lots of resources. Once detailed analyses is needed (e.g. budget allocation on subparts of projects) it seems to be limited.

Easier overview of resource planning

Float manage my day to begin work on. With that, i can see my schedule about what i must suppose to do for today.

There's so much people that barelly i can't see my name, probably you guys can fix this issue.

My PM's and me can collaborate to schedule the works and its easier than have all project in one day.

I find it very intuitive to use and it helps the team stay organized.

I'd like to be able to see my colleagues' schedules, but I imagine that's just a permissions setting. There's nothing I dislike about the features that I use.

Float has allowed for real-time updates from my manager and with my colleagues that allow us to keep all the parts moving in a complex, long-term project.

Float's multiple views made it much easier to see which team members were being booked on overlapping jobs.

I feel like it could use a master/birds' eye view to see projects and team members on the same page.

Much more accurate views for recording team members' billable hours by project. Our scheduling calendar was not efficient for that.

I like that you can split bookings so every day is defined with the precise hours required on that resource, rather than a large blanket booking. I like that there are unlimited colour choices for each user, and one can easily identify each resource's role in the company. I like that you can easily see when someone is overallocated.

I dislike the extra step that one must take to add a new client and new project. It's an additional step that I find too cumbersome and not user friendly. I also don't like that there isn't a simple "duplicate" button, rather, you must split it and then move it to a different resource.

We've discovered that larger companies need something like Float so we can be more precise with booking. Since time management is crucial in the production industry, we appreciate that you can be more accurate in bookings.

Float is very quick and easy to use and add activities in. I find the usability one of the best aspects of Float, as it is simple to teach and learn, which makes it so easy to implement. The last thing you need is to add cumbersome processes and time consuming activities to an already busy team.

I think many of the issues I originally had with Float have been fixed or new features added in the time I have been using it. New updates and features have overcome some of the complicate menus and streamlined the process for adding new tasks.

Our team are getting a very good idea on where our time is going and what clients or activities are taking the most time. It's able to track how much time is going into our own management and processes and how much time is going to client work. We don't use it a lot for forecasting, but would like to get there one day. At this stage it is very helpful in providing a log of our time.

Provide overview of the entire current and future workload for resource planning.

Some limitations as float is sometimes not that intuitive.

Having a glance of the jobs for each of the creative.