Float

Solid Product

Comments: 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.

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.

Alternatives Considered: Resource Management

Reasons for Choosing Float: Excel was very manual, cumbersome and time consuming.

Switched From: Microsoft Excel

Reasons for Switching to Float: The ease of use was critical to us. Float did everything we needed it to.

Float for time management

Comments: Problematic - not 100% sure this is floats problem, as it seems designed for the restaurant/service industry, and we are more a agency/service business.

Pros:

I like the fact you can filter and search by people and/or project

Cons:

I don't like that you cannot see 3months in advance on 1 screen. It's still laggy when scrolling, we have 70 people timesheeted and we have project managers filling this in, they find it cumbersome. The repeating tasks are not well formed, as in if you set a repeating weekly task then want to edit one week to be say 3 days, it won't let you do it. We have other awkward things around adding contractors or people leaving jobs, it would be nice if Float had more sample data as I think sometimes we uncover usecases they haven't tested for - atleast tested the UX for. I'd love it to improve, as the last speed improvement they did was a step in the right direction, but more customisation is needed.

Used float in my previous position

Pros:

I used float at my previous workplace and the ability to integrate with other apps such as Teamwork was brilliant and its easy to use and amend.

Cons:

There wasn't anything that stood out for me

MID-SIZE CREATIVE TEAM (20 ppl)

Pros:

Float is a powerful tool that can help the managers to make sure the team is not overloaded (or underloaded :) ).At the same time we have a clear vision if we, as a team, we can take more projects to work on or we have to raise our hand because we are in difficult

Cons:

Visually could be more appealing. User interface is easy but it could be more eye-catching for the creative team

Alternatives Considered: Resource Guru

Reasons for Switching to Float: The opportunity to have a mobile app and a time tracker