Float
About Float
Float is the resource management software that keeps teams of 5 to 1,000+ in sync. Schedule tasks quickly with a real-time view of availability, including time off and public holidays. See your team’s capacity and utilization at a glance to optimize assigned work. Connect with project management, calendar, and communication workflows via direct integrations. Keep project plans up to date with easy bulk edits. Scale up compliance with approval workflows and access permissions. Try for free (no credit card).
Key benefits of Float
One shared resource schedule, always in sync - Visualize your team’s workload in one place. Drag and drop to assign tasks with ease and edit tasks on the fly with handy shortcuts. Add unassigned roles to plan ahead for future hires, and store tasks while you’re waiting to confirm resources.
Multi-project Planning - With a single view of all your resources, you can plan your team’s time across multiple projects on the go. Set budgets and target milestones to keep your projects on track and reallocate resources before it’s too late!
Team Availability - Manage your team’s availability with set work hours, public holidays, and scheduled time off. See who’s free, who’s overbooked, and who’s kicking back on vacation—all at a glance.
Forecasting & reports - Powerful reporting features so you can monitor your team’s utilization. Set project budgets based on hours or dollars and forecast your capacity to plan ahead accurately.
Time Tracking - Add time tracking to your schedule so your team can log hours in a single-click against scheduled tasks, or quickly adjust their estimates and submit their actual hours worked. It’s the fastest way to compare your estimates vs. actuals and monitor whether your projects are on, under, or over budget
Apps and integrations - Float has a mobile app for iOS and Android and integrates with Slack, Google Calendar, Outlook, Zapier, and more.
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Beautifully simple and easy to use
Reviewed on 26/01/2019
Float is a product I like using, and I wish some of its features and UX elements were in the other...
Float is a product I like using, and I wish some of its features and UX elements were in the other software that I use! We use Synergist for job and project management, but Float for scheduling because it UX is so much better than Synergist's scheduler tool.
Pros
Float's user interface and logic are inspirational. They have made the activity of coordinating multiple resources on multiple projects about as easy as it can be. They have paid a lot of attention to usability, efficient use of screen real estate and simple navigation. However the killer feature is the intuitive yet clever way that searching and data navigation work. All searching and filtering is done using a single search field, which offers indexed word search on pretty much everything including tags. There is also a well-worked out protocol for handling union and intersect searches.
Cons
The only real bugbear is that any user that can enter data into the system can define new values for any field. It isn't possible to centrally control lists such as task names, clients, job descriptions etc. This means that if you have more than one person using the system, very quickly you get different versions of the same thing being defined (e.g. job roles being slightly different) which makes it difficult to analyse across records. Not a dealbreaker, but I do think it should be possible to lock down lists of values. Also it would be good if you could zoom out the view a little more - if you're dealing with more than a dozen resources/projects.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Float is your management tool for a good business.
Reviewed on 03/03/2023
Monthly cost is very low, services are great, support is wonderful, interface is a wow.
Monthly cost is very low, services are great, support is wonderful, interface is a wow.
Pros
Sync. of Float with other calendars such as Outlook and google makes life easier to work. All the reminders sent are great.
Cons
Could not find anything wrong with this software.
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monday.comReasons for Choosing Float
Found more options in Float, it exactly has what our company needs.Switched From
ZenHRReasons for Switching to Float
After analyzing how it works we found that it does not contain all the features we are looking for.- Industry: Design
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Production Management Software
Reviewed on 30/08/2023
Pros
It's web based and easy to use. You can track based on projects or people.
Cons
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 recommend.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Imaging floating through production or traffic management meetings!
Reviewed on 21/03/2023
We have been using it for almost 2 years, overall we are happy although it took a bit to get the...
We have been using it for almost 2 years, overall we are happy although it took a bit to get the hang of things. The customer service was super nice and helpful the couple of times I have reachedout.We have tried the time recording module a few months back but the price was too much for us at that time.
Pros
That once you get the hang of it is great tool for my team (about 40 team members). The big board gives great overview and the filters work like charm! As long as you have set them up correctly. This took a bit to click through all the team members but once done it make traffic management SO much easier!
Cons
Lack of multiple currencies, very cumbersome managment of retainer projects (those that need to be repeated month by month). Phases don't really work for me as it's too much maintenance and it's not the easiest to do
Reasons for Switching to Float
Interface, price, personal preferance that's difficult to pinpoint at the moment.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Resource planning in big picture
Reviewed on 09/09/2019
Float is great tool that helps us in three ways:
1. Planning resources in the near future - thanks...
Float is great tool that helps us in three ways:
1. Planning resources in the near future - thanks to this we can easily know what specialist and when will have free time for some short maintenance or start new project.
2. Planning time off office days
3. Get statistics about how much time was spend in which project in wide perspective and quickly check who and when was working on what milestone off the project for client reports.
Pros
How easy it is. To book resource or edit time range you only need a few clicks or drag and drop.
Cons
It will be nice to get notifications about not booked time of some resource and small tool for moving all booked resources for a given project in time.
Reasons for Choosing Float
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Nice UI, easy to set up, fast to add and modifyFloat FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Float.Q. What type of pricing plans does Float offer?
Float offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: $6.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Only $6 per active user when billed annually. Guests, archived users, and projects are all unlimited!
Q. Who are the typical users of Float?
Float has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Float support?
Float supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Float support mobile devices?
Float supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Float integrate with?
Float integrates with the following applications:
Asana, Google Calendar, Jira, Microsoft Outlook, Okta, OneLogin, Slack, Teamwork.com, Trello, WorkflowMax, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Float offer?
Float offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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