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: Machinery
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Achieve an equitable and sustainable resource management with Float.
Reviewed on 30/10/2023
Float enlightened us on how to have better planning and resources allocations. It allows us to...
Float enlightened us on how to have better planning and resources allocations. It allows us to first understand what is available to use and with such information, it becomes easy to plan our work based on what we have and what we are capable of. It allows us to institute responsibility among ourselves since it easy to know who is allocated to which job.
Pros
Float excellent resources management features helps us to bring together everyone and everything in the organization under one central point and this allows us to plan our projects effectively and allocate duties based on ones capabilities. It has useful dashboards which keeps us updated on the project time and budget expenditure in real time.
Cons
Working with Float has always been simple for me and i have no dislikes.
- Industry: Translation & Localisation
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Float makes the most useful tool for planning and managing work resources.
Reviewed on 2/7/2024
It has been a very productive experience. Float provides us with an amazing platform that help us...
It has been a very productive experience. Float provides us with an amazing platform that help us schedule and plan our team tasks based on our resources availability. It allows us to assign tasks amongst ourselves and schedule task timelines to keep check on time.
Pros
Float has the best to use work scheduling tools that assist us to allocate tasks and create work schedules easily. It has an very user-friendly interface which allows us to comfortably make use of all the available functions. Float time tracking features keeps us always on the lookout on the time we are spending performing each tasks.
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Working with Float has been so seamless and there is no aspect about it not to like best.
- 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 30/8/2023
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: Environmental Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
FLOAT - EI
Reviewed on 10/5/2024
Pros
minimalistic style makes it easy to identify different tasks and task blocks
Cons
It's a bit basic in terms of what you can do with scheduling, could be more autonomous when assigning tasks in terms of setting your own colour permanently
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great tool
Reviewed on 12/11/2024
Easy-to-use tool, efficient but needs more flexibility.
Easy-to-use tool, efficient but needs more flexibility.
Pros
Float Streamlines project scheduling and resource allocation.
Cons
Float has limited customization options for unique workflows.
Float 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: 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!
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, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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