Float Reviews & Product Details

the ease of use this platform. Sometimes it doesnt need to be any feature, just simple as float make schedule perfect

I like to see the feature of seeing other staf schedule. Because human brain is full of curiousity

The benefit of using float is we can see what time the deadline meet

Float is extremely easy to use and you can work on it like a pro from day one. Its dashboard is quite clean and uncluttered. I can see mine and my team's performance and plan clearly on the dashboard. We can send updates, assign its priority and plan everything in advance with its help.

Its quite an amazing planner but it still has a long way to go. It still doesn't offer some features such as proper functioning search bar, its dashboard is quite small, etc. But probably the whole point in using this software is less is more.

Planning and updating tasks among team members. Keeping the track and maintaining workflows.

Simple and clean overview of resource planning. Easy to adjust and play with.

Seems a bit slow when including lots of resources. Once detailed analyses is needed (e.g. budget allocation on subparts of projects) it seems to be limited.

Easier overview of resource planning

I like that you can split bookings so every day is defined with the precise hours required on that resource, rather than a large blanket booking. I like that there are unlimited colour choices for each user, and one can easily identify each resource's role in the company. I like that you can easily see when someone is overallocated.

I dislike the extra step that one must take to add a new client and new project. It's an additional step that I find too cumbersome and not user friendly. I also don't like that there isn't a simple "duplicate" button, rather, you must split it and then move it to a different resource.

We've discovered that larger companies need something like Float so we can be more precise with booking. Since time management is crucial in the production industry, we appreciate that you can be more accurate in bookings.

Float is very quick and easy to use and add activities in. I find the usability one of the best aspects of Float, as it is simple to teach and learn, which makes it so easy to implement. The last thing you need is to add cumbersome processes and time consuming activities to an already busy team.

I think many of the issues I originally had with Float have been fixed or new features added in the time I have been using it. New updates and features have overcome some of the complicate menus and streamlined the process for adding new tasks.

Our team are getting a very good idea on where our time is going and what clients or activities are taking the most time. It's able to track how much time is going into our own management and processes and how much time is going to client work. We don't use it a lot for forecasting, but would like to get there one day. At this stage it is very helpful in providing a log of our time.

Easy to see your own and colleagues tasks, email notifications

Would like more tools to report back the level of completion of tasks

No more ugly spreadsheets that are impossible to follow

That it is helpful for a large group or organization to see schedules of all in the group. I also liked that you can move things around fairly easily.

Adding projects and tasks initially was cumbersome. It isn't very intuitive, and requires a little learning curve to get that set up correctly.

Still new to it, so haven't seen huge benefits or problems solved to date.

Aesthetic is lovely and once you have all your events recorded it’s easy to see your teams schedule.

The navigation is klunky. When copying/duplicating/splitting events it is not very intuitive. The automatic window that comes up whenever you click the calendar is a little much.

It can get disorganized when privileges on projects are done correctly. When end up with duplicates of jobs because we can’t use the one someone started if they don’t select certain options.

User interface Fast Non lagging Useful information upfront on the display

Could have linking to Jira tasks Could have swimlanes to classify users instead of just filters. Swimlanes could be skillset, designation, etc.

Overall task delegation in a unstructured organization where any developer can be picked from anywhere in the world to perform tasks. Float helps check who is free and who is occupied.

I like how visually seeing my workload for the day/forseeable future looks and how simple the initial use is.

Sometimes the site is very slow and the scroll doesn't work. It is hard to set up new teams and remove/add when creating my own team. I recognise I don't do this very often myself but it's not simple to navigate and find on initial use.

It's super easy to ready what I'm working on each day and throughout the week. I can see what I'm doing at a quick glance which is super helpful.

Float allows me to see what projects people are allocated on easily, or who is allocated on a project. It's easy to visually organise time off and adding tentative projects.

For the resource or user themselves, there is no email notification if a project has been added, deleted, or updated, so we have to check float regularly, which I think is a bit pointless if you're not a PM.

Float lets me easily check who's doing what and what I'll be doing in the future.

For me, the most helpful feature of Float is the ability to see what everyone else in my team is up to and when they're away. What's also helpful is the ability to retrospectively view what I have worked on previously.

Float offers the facility to link with other calendars with an iCal link, unfortunately this can sometimes be unreliable as the link seems to expire meaning it needs to be set up again.

Overall Float is a very helpful tool, but has a few minor technical issues that can be a source of frustration.

Float is visually very easy to read and allows users to be succinct but detailed at the same time.

Float tends to not register all our changes and tends to not be completely "LIVE" as it requires multiple refreshes at times to attain the most updated information. This is mainly happens when there are multiple project managers. The export report is not as detailed as I would like it to be. It would be more beneficial to have monthly exports with breakdowns per job, per person and per week. I need to use the raw data more often than referring to the online report so it would be good to see some improvements on this.

Float helps us accurately manage our project life cycles and also individual workloads to ascertain useful information about performance rates and also account health.

Like how easy it is to manage resources and the visual aspect of the software.

I did not find anything yet that I do not like.

Resource Management and task management. Much better overview than spreadsheets.

Easy to see what my day is going to be blocked out as

Sometimes it will allow for more hours set than are in a work day

time Management

The ability to automatically map hours across the team with holiday, sickness already considered. As a user the dashboard was user friendly and a helpful reference when progressing through a month.

The inability to spread project hours unevenly across weeks/days for the regular roundup e-mails to users. Users requested an additional level of detail that reflected their evolving day to day capacity.

A helpful view of capacity, work distribution and team member availability.

only show a certain project (by search) no page loads

too simple at times does not remove people who are not on a search project

currently we are float to help with sprint schedule across our team

it is easy to use and has a very good layout, you can see everything what you need on one spot

we cannot copy already made postings, which do not come up frequently

schedule overview problems, we see how we can relate on others in our company and being able to ask them for help within our projects

I've been using float for almost a year now. It has made SUCH a difference in allowing our teams to be able to track where and when individuals are working from home/out of office/on holiday on a simple and unified platform. The tool is also incredibly user-friendly and makes it easy for anyone to be able to use it on a day to day basis. I also love how quickly you can add and edit to your projects in your calendar.

Nothing major comes to mind about the tool that I dislike particularly. With that said, some potential improvements could include: - Allowing you to drag and drop to copy a schedule from one person to another, instead of just relocating it - A way to see notes on a project by just hovering over the icon rather than clicking on it - Having additional colors to color code the calendar would also be helpful - we have 15+ people using the platform at a time and it would be useful to be able to have more colors to help organize people's calendars - The relocation of tasks can also sometimes be a bit tricky

This is a huge time saver for me - allows me to easily access calendars of large groups of people without having to view each person's calendar individually. Float also helps keep everyone across both of our offices more organized.

It's straight forward and easy to use. It's also very scalable and can be utilized by small or large organizations

Float is missing a copy and paste function! The program also crashes from time to time and can be slow to load.

Resourcing and capacity planning has become a lot more streamlined now that resources within our organization are shared more broadly.