Float Review 2022 -

What is Float?

Float is the resource management software that keeps teams of 5 to 500+ 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. Free 30-day trial.

Float is the resource management software that keeps teams of 5 to 500 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. Free 30-day trial.

Float is a collaborative resource management software for real-time project planning and task scheduling. Features include an intuitive interface, drag-and-drop features, keyboard shortcuts, reports, and analytics, and editing tools.

With team availability management, Float users can plan project resources based on employee capacity as well as set individual work hours, add public holidays, schedule time off, and add a status to give an overview of where and when employees are working. Time tracking enables team members to log hours against scheduled tasks, adjust estimates, and submit actual hours worked. With reporting tools, managers can track the team’s utilization and use project data to drive business decisions.

Float search features enable users to schedule people, projects, tags, departments, and more. Managers have an overview of a project’s progress by comparing scheduled hours with actual time logged to identify if projects are on, under, or over budget. The platform enables users to forecast budget spend, facilitating forward planning based on actual capacity and resources.

Float features dedicated integrations with Slack, Teamwork, Google Calendar, and Outlook. Additionally, the platform can be connected with other third-party software via Zapier and includes native apps for iOS and Android.

What do you like best about Float?

Our organization really likes Float as a picture of future bandwidth. Managers appreciate how they can quickly make adjustments to their direct reports’ assignments and we have used Float as part of new hire business cases to get a quick visual of bandwidth constraints. Float is very easy to update on the fly as projects change.

I really like how easy it is to use, that’s the main thing! I have never used it before but within 15 minutes I’d managed to schedule all my projects. I also like the budget tracking element – I have quite a complicated project with a less than 2% tolerance with the budget and Float has been invaluable helping me track that.

The scheduling, logging and updating features are the ones I use daily and they help me massively with my time management, even more so because I’m working from home. The reports are my favourite feature so far along with updates as my work changes a lot more than what was scheduled.

Float makes tracking time/hours for each project you are assigned to very quick and easy. Each task has its own tab that is very specific to what you are working on.

What do you dislike about Float?

Logging in time should definitely be the responsibility of the user, however, I think an alert/notification feature to remind users to track their hours would be very useful. I dislike that it is up to managers and higher-ups to reach out about missing days or time.

Well, most of it has been cleared in the recent update as the issue was with updating tasks, and the different formats for tasks and projects in scheduling and logging which sometimes is confusing when doing both at the same time. Of course, the occasional crashes are a bit annoying sometimes.

I find it’s quite hard to export the data which we need for our invoicing – I end up exporting it in Excel and then having to copy and paste. I would love it if there was some sort of invoicing feature in float so we could generate them at source!

Customer service via email support can be confusing and take a long time to address the original question. This could be addressed by having a slightly different triage system. Additionally, if you have multiple URLs you can’t implement SSO for all of them, which we discovered only at the end of trying to implement SSO.

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

We are able to resource, plan projects, and have down-and-dirty gut checks on bandwidth more easily with Float. A wonderful feature is tagging individuals, as we are able to add skills, special notes, and more as appropriate, and filter by these tags (as well as levels, departments, etc.).

It’s helping me monitor the profitability of my projects, it’s ensuring our people are not overloaded or not having enough to do – which ensures we can maintain a sustainable velocity across the organisation which is really powerful.

As a work-from-home employee it’s comparatively harder for me to do time management between household chores and office work which more often than not go side by side, float is a life saver for that. As someone with OCD, the clean and smooth sailing interface really calms me down.

Float solves the issue of employees being unsure about how often or how little they dedicate time to certain projects; with Float you can visualize in the reports how much time is spent on a task, and this is beneficial in showcasing how your hours are being distributed throughout the day.

Float Features

Pros

“Overall experience is very good. My team was excited about adopting this technology to better track time between our different ongoing projects and it works well.”
“You have a good overall view, scheduling is easy, the design view is great, reporting is easy and everything comes initially so you are really fast in knowing how to use it.”
“Great system, great team. There is a lot of very good positives for Float, but I can see there is still room to grow, but I have no doubt the team at Float will progress this in time.”
“I love the modern-looking UI and simple design, which makes our messy every day schedules seem more organized. As a graphic designer myself, I realy appreciate a good looking system.”

Cons

“It’s not easy to navigate through time, zoom out, in, and to find “today” once you lost it.”
“It’s not that mobile-friendly at the moment. I’ve got trouble scrolling all the way to the bottom.”
“Not a lot however I say that when you have more than one client with same name it’s confusing.”
“As a go-between project management and reso
urce management, there are still systems it’s integrations fail on such as Jira.”

Float Pricing

Starting From:

$7.50 /month

Pricing Model: Per User

Yes, has free trial
Yes, has free version

PRICING DETAILS (Provided by Vendor):

Only $6 per active user when billed annually. Guest, archived users, and projects are all unlimited!