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Float Reviews & Product Details

Float Overview
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
API
Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
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
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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Last updated: July 04, 2024
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1,237 Float Reviews
4.2 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 22, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
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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
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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
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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

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 28, 2022
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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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

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

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jun 15, 2022
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Overall Rating:
3.5
MK
Mustafa K.
Pmo Consultant
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"I found it useful using Float in managing resource time utilization"
What do you like best about Float?

Float is super good in managing hours utilization and team updates on project allocation. I think it is an easy to use tool. I only manage resources but there are other ways of using Float too.

What do you dislike about Float?

UI of Float seems old. The Colour scheme needs an update, filter option is sometimes confusing in a way about what to select and from where but overall it is fine and manageable.

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

I am using Float for solving team resource allocation and adding team members to the required projects. It helps me in guiding a resource about their allocation and project, work etc

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 24, 2021
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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Rhys B.
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"GREAT FOR TIME MANAGEMENT"
What do you like best about Float?

keeping track of my day and logging hours spent on projects

What do you dislike about Float?

occasionally doesn't let me delete projects from my day

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

saved time logging hours on projects. The team knows what they are working on

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 22, 2021
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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David C.
Project Manager
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"A solid system for smaller teams"
What do you like best about Float?

Float is incredibly easy to use and integrate into smaller teams. Visually straightforward, it gives you quick and simple answers to essential resource-based questions and allows team members to see what work they should be progressing and when in a tidy calendar view. In addition, there is an easy link between time in the calendar to projects that can be managed quickly.

What do you dislike about Float?

I do find that compared to some other systems, a level of detail when it comes to finances and budgets vs resource is missing. Whilst you can get some very top-level detail, the ability to link actual time spent versus project budgets is a little simplistic and could be expanded upon to really drill down into more detail to provide better overall reports.

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

Resource management. The ability to organise team members and ensure they're informed as to their work schedules was quickly and easily done with the use of Float.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 18, 2021
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Overall Rating:
3.5
DA
Destina A.
Media Production/ Working Student
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"Great Software for bigger Companies!!"
What do you like best about Float?

Very organized and clean, great to maintain a good workflow overall, Scheduling is made very easy on this software

What do you dislike about Float?

Can be a bit overwhelming in the beginning, but super quick to learn

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

Project scheduling in bigger Teams is as easy as it can be. Scheduling your own day is also very great on this software. It allows you to work in bigger Teams without getting in each others way.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Feb 18, 2021
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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Hannelore V.
Front End Developer
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"Easy-to-use, amazing collaboration tool"
What do you like best about Float?

Float is very easy to use and has a nice user interface. Next to that, I really like the fact that you get notified everyday about your daily schedule and every time someone makes changes to your schedule.

What do you dislike about Float?

It's not completely mobile-friendly. I've got trouble scrolling all the way to the bottom.

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

It's really easy to see what colleagues are doing everyday. Before, if you couldn't participate in a stand-up, you didn't know what everyone was up to.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 18, 2021
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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Simran Jaya B.
Creative Resource / Trafficking Co Ordinator
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"Float is great for first learners and so easy to use!"
What do you like best about Float?

I love how easy to use the software is, it is great for new learners and not difficult to understand

What do you dislike about Float?

I think it would be better to make Float more inclusive to PM and production needs such as budgeting. It would also be better if you could temporarily add users such as freelancers for 30 days.

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

It is so easy to use and it is great for teams to be able to access this. The guest feature on Float is also great as it lets account managers see live updates.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 17, 2021
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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Divyesh V.
Media Intern
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"Good for project management"
What do you like best about Float?

Board section : Different cards for tasks can be segmented to show updates like done, to do, etc

What do you dislike about Float?

Sometimes, it is difficult to find the Board section

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

Communication about the tasks are clear. We can assign the particular person for a task effectively

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 17, 2021
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Overall Rating:
3.5
SD
Stijn D.
Technical Lead Unity Development
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"Quick and easy"
What do you like best about Float?

I like this tool because it only took me a few minutes to figure out how I could plan future work and budget for my team.

What do you dislike about Float?

It's not always as easy to plan a versy specific amount of time for a task rather than 8hours.

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

Our team uses float to keep of and plan work for future projects.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 17, 2021
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Overall Rating:
3.5
SG
Sydney G.
Audio Engineer
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"Floast helped us organize our resources better and take the guess work out of scheduling."
What do you like best about Float?

Simple, concise layout that let's us see where our assets are being used.

What do you dislike about Float?

Mobile app has issues, needing login every time being the latest one.

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

Better top down view of our organization and how we're deploying resources.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 25, 2020
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Overall Rating:
3.5
WV
Waldo V.
Founder
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"Great Software"
What do you like best about Float?

The budgeting functionality for each task

What do you dislike about Float?

UI might need a bit of improvement when dragging a task to completion. Sometimes it unchecks the smaller tasks within the larger one.

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

Project management with budgeting options.