Float

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Resource planning for agencies, studios and firms.

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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Float Software - A single view of your team's capacity and workload
Float Software - Manage your team's availability on autopilot
Float Software - Create and visualize project timelines and task dependencies
Float Software - Fast and easy-to-use resource scheduling tools

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Overall rating

4.5 /5
(1,604)
Value for Money
4.4/5
Features
4.2/5
Ease of Use
4.5/5
Customer Support
4.5/5

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Stren
Stren
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great platform for staffing and management

Reviewed on 31/08/2023

A good platform to manage: who, what and when. Float has maintained the visual people focus I love...

A good platform to manage: who, what and when. Float has maintained the visual people focus I love about the original product. Integrates well with our data compliance and avoids budget/client confidential data which will need to stay on our intranet. Presentation mode and time split functions are areas to grow functionality.

Pros

Intuitive and easy to use, focus on work schedule not project budget.

Cons

Updates are not always realtime forced page reloads required which can be troublesome for the team.

Alternatives Considered

LiquidPlanner, monday.com and Evernote Teams

Reasons for Switching to Float

Price, easy of use, data compliance.
Varsha
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Float is in the air

Reviewed on 14/06/2024

Pros

Float has a fantastic UI and extremely easy to use
It also caters to specific team types like consulting while recognizing the work we do for external clients

Cons

It could have a better project search functionality. It is a bit glitchy

Gauthier
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Useful software but seems old fashioned

Reviewed on 24/02/2024

Pros

Easy to use. Easy to export data.
We used it during several years but we decided to switch to a more up to date software.

Cons

You can’t lock the hours, so every time a user is changing something you can’t justify your invoicing and reporting anymore.
Looks a bit old fashioned.

Anouk
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  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best time management system

Reviewed on 05/08/2024

Float is very easy to understand and use on a regular basis

Float is very easy to understand and use on a regular basis

Pros

Easy to manage time schedule and easy to use

Cons

Nothing, eveything works well, you can learn to use it by yourself

Agata
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great tool for planning of a numerous team

Reviewed on 16/04/2024

Pros

It gives the possibility to use it with a low or high level of detail of scheduling. A lot of possibilities and very flexible tool.

Cons

I don't have any issue with the product. What I like least about using Float is that not every member of the team is committed in using it so we can have some misunderstandings because for instance the colleague schedule some time-off on Google calendar but then forget to report it also in Float.

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Float FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Float.

Float offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$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!

Float has the following typical customers:

11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Float supports the following languages:

English

Float supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Float integrates with the following applications:

Asana, Google Calendar, Jira, Microsoft Outlook, Okta, OneLogin, Slack, Teamwork.com, Trello, WorkflowMax, Zapier

Float offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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