About Float
Float is the world's leading resource management software for agencies, studios, and firms. Since 2012, Float has helped the world’s best teams (including Metalab, Deloitte, and Buzzfeed) plan their projects, schedule their team’s time and deliver over 10million tasks in more than 150 countries.
With an easy-to-use and intuitive interface, drag-and-drop functionality, and powerful editing tools, Float makes planning your projects and scheduling your team's time visual and straightforward. Manage your team’s availability by setting individual work hours, scheduling time off, and assigning location-based public holidays. Search your schedule for practically anything and track your team's utilization with powerful reporting tools. Forecast your budget spend and plan ahead based on your team's real capacity and resources.
Add Time Tracking to your schedule and get the full picture of your project’s progress. Compare your estimated hours with actual time worked to see whether your projects are on, under, or over budget. Log hours in a single-click against scheduled tasks, or quickly adjust your estimates and submit your actual hours worked.
Integrate your Float schedule with other applications like Teamwork, Slack, Google Calendar, Outlook, and 1,000+ of your favorite apps via Zapier. Access and update your schedule from anywhere or log hours on the go with a mobile app for iOS and Android.
By providing a single view of your real resource capacity and a shared calendar of who's working on what, Float makes team resource scheduling across multiple projects faster, easier, and more efficient.
Pricing starting from:
US$7.50/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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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.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Markets
Australia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada , Switzerland, China, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Hong Kong SAR China, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, Ukraine, United States and 17 others
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
US$7.50/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Float: 110
Alternatives
Google Sheets
Kantata
ClickUp
Microsoft Excel
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- Industry: Fund-Raising
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Into the future you go with Float
Reviewed on 17/1/2019
It has transformed our creative deparment going from excel sheets sent around via email at the end...
It has transformed our creative deparment going from excel sheets sent around via email at the end of the week to everyone having an account and checking their workload for the day. It has also meant I can work closer with the finance department to forecast and see hours burnt.
Pros
Float completely transformed our creative department as it allowed me to be much more reactive with organising the workflow of the floor. Float gave me back so many hours to manage projects. It's very easy to use and a great way to see what projects are booked in with who. We have multiple projects and the colour coding tool for clients is a dream!
Cons
The only con I have found with Float is aligning the same projects tasks in one line. For instance Person A could have Project X with 1st development ending on tuesday and 1st comments on wednesday starting 2nd development, if they have another project, say project Y that could be in the same row as 1st development and 2nd development could be a line below making it a bit hard to follow.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Excellent tool for team scheduling and follow-ups
Reviewed on 2/8/2019
Our company went from 1 to 5 people in the past year. We also have interns or students that are...
Our company went from 1 to 5 people in the past year. We also have interns or students that are only here for a while. We now have a tool that allows us to follow up projects and team schedules in a very clear way without creating big overhead costs. It works fast and efficient for us.
Pros
Easy to use. We can view the schedule of the entire team in one screen and make instant changes if necessary.
Cons
When creating tasks, the difference between creating projects and clients can be annoying. Also: provide more colours! ;-)
Reasons for Choosing Float
Google Sheets was becoming to complicated to follow up billable hours, tasks and schedules. Float brought all of those together for our team.Switched From
Google SheetsReasons for Switching to Float
Google Sheets was not efficient anymore. Teamleader had too many features for our current needs and would have created more overhead costs.- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great for a high level, resource management tool.
Reviewed on 2/9/2020
Pros
Its a user friendly tool that makes resource management and managing a team of 40 with varying skillsets, availability, and calendars feasible.
Cons
It is not customizable, few api integrations that have worked, no development hope even when communicating with brand reps. You almost are forced to use it as is, off the shelf, or not at all.
Reasons for Switching to Float
Cheaper, visually appealing, you can stack by department, skill set, tag, etc. in ways other tools cannot.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Life saver
Reviewed on 2/11/2022
Pros
Float has saved my life a time or two! Either by reminding me about an upcoming appointment I'd forgotten or even by lending me a few bucks for gas to get me through till pay day! Thanks Float!
Cons
Not a thing to complain about here THANK YOU FLOAT!
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Solid Product
Reviewed on 27/6/2022
It's helped us grow a lot and help more people. It's really helped us spend less time doing admin...
It's helped us grow a lot and help more people. It's really helped us spend less time doing admin work and more time doing real work and helping people. It takes some getting used to and commitment but it's beautifully designed, intuitive, and a big part of our success.
Pros
How easy it is to use. It's easy to jump in and also complicated enough that you can really use some advanced features.
Cons
There are of course small issues here and there but none worth mentioning at all. It's truly a great product and really helpful.
Response from Float
Thank you for your review, Adam! Excellent to hear that Float is saving you time on admin work so you can do more of what you do best!
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$7.50/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Only $6 per active user when billed annually. Guest, archived users, and projects are all unlimited!
Q. Who are the typical users of Float?
Float has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 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, QuickBooks, Slack, Teamwork, 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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