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Float builds winning teams for every project. Get the context and data you need (that other tools don’t give you) to match the right people to the right projects when resourcing client work. Success in professional services isn’t just about assigning work: it’s building the high-performing teams who deliver it. With Float, you can make smarter resourcing decisions and adapt schedules as work shifts. 4,500+ teams worldwide choose Float to: ✔️ Schedule resources: easily see who’s working on what and when, with a live schedule to plan and allocate work. ✔️ Plan capacity: balance workloads and prevent burnout with a live view of availability, time off, and scheduled work. ✔️ Scope projects: align what you need with what you have to create project schedules that keep work on track with the right people, budgets, and timelines. ✔️ Track time: simplify timesheets with pre-filled hours so your actuals data is more accurate and always on time! ✔️ Report: make informed decisions with live insights into team utilization and budget spend to understand how resourcing affects project margins and profitability.

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Product Description

Float is a resource scheduling solution for agencies, studios and firms that helps keeping track of who's working on what and when.

Overview by

Siobhan Hayes (Director of Marketing @ Float)

Float Integrations

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Easily see who’s working on what and when, with a live schedule to plan and allocate work.

Balance workloads and prevent burnout with a live view of availability, time off, and scheduled work.

Align what you need with what you have to create project schedules that keep work on track with the right people, budgets, and timelines.

Simplify timesheets with pre-filled hours so your actuals data is more accurate and always on time!

Make informed decisions with live insights into team utilization and budget spend to understand how resourcing affects project margins and profitability.

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Kavindu R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/28/2023

"Easy to use and learn"

4/5

What do you like best about Float?

Float has been designed well to have a intuitive user interface which is easy it to pick up and learn. Additionally, it promotes a balance between home life and work life as time recording encourages me to to identify signs of overworking. Overall it helps create a healthier and happier work life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

Time recording in general is burdensome or very administrative. I try to record my time at the end of each week as a habit but I tend to forget. I alos receive several promotion emails from Float which is a bit annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bo B.

Director of Client Engagement

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/29/2023

"Float is great without trying to be everything"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Float?

Float is super easy to use! It's valuable for our team to track resources across projects and issues. We can easily see and modify resource allocations in an appealing visual UI that also has all needed details. Recent platform updates allowing us to assign multiple resources to a task and to duplicate allocations across multiple weeks are very helpful and welcomed! I'm glad that Float doesn't try to do more than it does - we don't need it to also priduce Gantt charts or track actual time spent - we have other tools for those, and such features would risk bogging down a simple yet powerful product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

My main complaint is that the UI for toggling between different modes (add/edit, split, link, etc.) is a bit clunky - it requires right-clicking an existing allocation block, but sometimes acts weird, especially when using a trackpad that requires ctrl-click. Also, when creating a new project or client, the system defaults to limited access rather than all-organization access, and so we often have to go and request edit access to projects that should be editable by default. But these issues are minor compared to the overall usefulness of the platform! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Miranda K.

Project Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/1/2023

"Very happy with Float"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Float?

I like how easy it is to track availability and schedules of a lot of staff. This way I can easily find help on projects when needed and know who will be out of the office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

I think Float is very easy to navigate, the only problem is when people are not updating regularly. I wish there was a reminder feature so people were updating at the same frequency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vitalii L.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/31/2023

"Using Float has been a seamless and productive experience for me."

4/5

What do you like best about Float?

Float offers an intuitive interface, making team scheduling and project tracking a breeze. The real-time updates and integrations have significantly improved our workflow efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

While Float is largely beneficial, I wish there were more customization options for visual themes. However, its core functionalities remain unmatched. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Float addresses the challenges of resource allocation and team scheduling in a dynamic environment. By providing a clear visual representation of tasks and availability, it eliminates double bookings and over-allocations. This has streamlined our project management process, ensuring that every team member is effectively utilized without being overwhelmed. As a result, our team's productivity has increased, and we can deliver projects on time with greater consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sam W.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/1/2023

"Mediocer"

3/5

What do you like best about Float?

Being able to use color schemes for all blocks.

Easy access for users and easy to add new users when needed.

Being able to slide blocks and set certain hours etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

Blocks are really big and take up the whole screen. If I want to see the whole team i have to zoom out so far that I am not able to read the blocks annymore. This makes working with Float difficult in some situations to match schedules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/12/2024

"It's a good tool for the purpose"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Float?

It lets me easily log time as a casual employee Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

Slightly annoying process for logging multiple tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/23/2023

"Trying to review it as a regular user and not ux designer, haha."

4/5

What do you like best about Float?

It's really easy to use. In our team, there's not a lot of people, so the scheduling is very convenient. Comparing to the competitors, Float has a positive benefit of using categories and different colors for the projects. Possibility to check completed tasks is a benefit, too. Visual design seems to be on point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

It would be really lovely to get an automatic color attachment for different category projects. And maybe adding a deadline to the project would be even more easier, it wouldn't require to re-check in Jira when scheduling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mainly I use it for many different initiative scheduling. As a designer I work with various stakeholders, so Float helps a lot. Earlier, I have used Google Sheets for that and oh boy. I guess, we can't even compare it, can we :) It looked a little overwhelming (maybe because I have ADHD), however, Float is one of my fav digital tools now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Public Relations and Communications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/22/2023

"Juggling capacities has never been easier (and prettier)"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Float?

The tool has a simple overview, visually similar to already known calendars. This means that you don't need any time to familiarize yourself with it. Just click and add entries.

If you work with many different customers, you can create them once and then easily add individual projects within these customer folders.

I especially like the fact that I can tell my clients apart right at first glance using the Color Coding feature. But when I need more information, I can also click on the entries and have access to the job number, the available budget, and any other information that might be available.

Thanks Float - you make my daily work so much easier :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

What could be improved:

Currently, when I enter vacation, my projects in the same time frame just disappear from the schedule. This is quite inconvenient and should be fixed. It would be more practical to at least be warned and transfer the projects individually to someone else from the team, or be able to specify vacation substitutions so that the projects are automatically transferred.

Also, it would be great if you could duplicate blockers via copy & paste. The split tool is often a bit impractical to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Float solving and how is that benefiting you?

If you work in an agency, chances are high you need to be really flexible and react quick when changes in your timetable occur. Float does make that prolem a lot easier for me, since I can just drag n' drop by blockers around and can split tasks super easily with my co-workers. With float we are always informed about who is doing what, where we still have some flexibility and where one might need help with a client.

For our small team (of 5-7) it is just a super easy to use solution that I wouldn't want to miss! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marcello S.

Senior Director, Integrated Intelligence

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/1/2023

"Easy to use"

4/5

What do you like best about Float?

You can filter down by project, title, names. You can also add details of the team members (what team they belong to, direct report or even simple tags like experience level) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

When you assign a team member to a project, and they need to work different hours in different weeks, you have to create an entry for each segment. E.g. 3hrs/day in Q1 and 4hrs/day in Q2, and then the same in Q3 and Q4, you need to create 4 different entries. It gets complicated if you program by week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.