Who Uses Float?
Teams who want a powerful and easy-to-use resource management. Float provides an accurate, real-time view of your capacity, and a lightning-fast interface thats perfect for teams of all sizes.
What Is Float?
Float is resource management software that helps teams plan projects and resources with confidence. Schedule time off, set custom work hours, and track your teams time to get an accurate view of overall capacity. Assign tasks and make changes to your teams workload on the fly with easy-to-use scheduling tools. Powerful reporting features help you track project budgets and forecast future time and expenses. Connect directly with Asana, Trello, Jira, Slack, and more. Try Float free for 30 days.
Float Details
Float
https://www.float.com
Founded 2012
Float pricing overview
See pricing plansFloat has a free version and offers a free trial. Float paid version starts at US$5.00/month.
Starting Price
US$5.00/month See pricing details
Pricing Details
Only $5 per active user. Guest, archived users and projects are all unlimited!
Free Version
Yes
Free Trial
Yes, get a free trial
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- Online Booking
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Float Reviews for UK Users
Read all reviewsOverall rating
Average score
Kenneth krogh R.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 18/02/2021
"Float - Nice tool for team management"
Pros: It is a very visual tool, I love the timeline graph where you can easily filter down the resources on both person and project tags.
Cons: It is rather simple and I would like some more options for tailoring the product to our specific needs, like setting monthly cost limits and including more visual options on each project.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 18/02/2021
Colby G.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 16/08/2020
"A fantastic, easy to use software that gets the job done"
Pros: The simplicity of Float was what sold it for us. As a company with around 90 very busy engineers and designers, entering workload data needed to take less than 5 minutes. With Float we can do this. Once all the data is in Float, managers can easily see who needs more work and who is overloaded. Support is also fantastic. The instant message service on the website always gets a fast response.
Cons: No major issues. If I had to nitpick, I had to create a workaround to allow all employees to be able to automatically see every project in the system sithout assigning it to them. To do this I had to make every user an admin. But this works fine.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 16/08/2020
Leandro M.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for MoneyUnrated
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 18/02/2021
"Best time tracking tool I've used so far"
Comments: After using other 2 tools to log hours, I definitely choose float as my preferred one
Pros: The product is so intuitive, we didn't need a company meeting to explain how it works, we just started using it right away, and nobody experienced problems on how to use the tool. Logging hours is so easy, specially when you have your hours already planned.
Cons: Not sure if there's a way to plan vacations from float, right now we have to use a separate tool for that, and would be great if we could do everything from just one place
Vendor Response
by Float on 16/03/2021
Hi Leandro,
Thanks so much for your feedback and review! There is an option to add time-off to your schedule which includes vacation/paid leave, sick leave, and personal leave.
We'd welcome hearing more specific feedback on the vacation planning you'd like to see. Please drop us a note to [email protected]
Thanks,
Siobhan @ Float
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 18/02/2021
Laura P.
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Overall Rating3 /5
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Ease of Use3 /5
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Features & Functionality3 /5
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Customer Support4 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 05/09/2019
"Great value. Lots of potential"
Comments:
I've been using CETA scheduling software for the last 4 years in big VFX companies and I must say that Float is not there yet but is actually getting broadly comparable. In the last 4 months that I introduced it into my new team it's proved to be quite useful to keep track of the progression of our projects. During these months I've seen that it has already improved in many areas that I'm excited to see what comes next.
I can see it can become a really powerful software.
Pros:
There aren't may softwares that let you schedule a team in such an easy and organised way.
I think most softwares nowadays are too complex and make you spend more time organising tasks than actually working on them.
Float is so clear and simple you can actually use it to manage big projects without spending too much time on it.
Cons:
It's getting better, but it would be very useful if we could:
- Right click on a pencil and be able to copy it over into a different person.
- Book more than one person on the same project (for example if two workers are on the same project because one of them is doing a training but you don't want to charge twice for that time).
- Lately when I try to schedule more than 1 project in one day on the same person I get a message saying I can't schedule anyone for more than 24 hours) even if I'm not exceeding the 8 normal working hours. It'd be great if that could be fixed.
- It'd be good if milestones were more visible.
- I think reports should be a bit less complicated and more visual.
- It'd be really helpful if you could group projects up in folders when you go to the Projects tab as at the moment we have like... 45 different projects going on and although we color code them it's difficult to organise all of them.
-I'd like to have more than only three types of view when looking at our schedules a part from 'Days, 'Weeks' and 'Months'.
It'd be great if you could 'Archive' users as well as projects. So when a worker it's not working at the company anymore and you don't want to pay for it on Float you can kind of 'Archive' him (so you are not able to book him on anything but still you can see him on the boards so you don't loose what it's been scheduled on him.)
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 05/09/2019
Sophie T.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for MoneyUnrated
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 17/02/2021
"Good number of features without going overboard"
Pros: Float has a nice clean interface with a powerful search feature so you can filter down by person, client, project etc. very quickly and easily. The documentation for Float's APIs is nice and clean. Although our software doesn't naturally integrate with Float, we've been able to use the API to bring projects in automatically from our sales tracking platform.
Cons: The way that people's time commitments on other projects are displayed on every project is useful to make sure nobody is over-resourced. However this means that each project can take up a fair amount of space, and using placeholder people/roles is a nightmare because they look incredibly over-booked if you're using them across many projects while planning.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 17/02/2021
