Float.com Reviews & Product Details

As a consultant, my job requires me to work on different projects at the same time. So planning for different customers with individual tasks is key to succeed in the IT world as a consultant. Since we are all scattered around Germany (mostly at a customer facility) the best part about Float is that the whole team can see where I am and for what customer I work at a specific time. That's key for the upper management to see who is available at what time and could work for a new customer. That's what's so great about float, the aspect that it works for a company with multiple projects and different customers at the same time. It is a tool to guarantee the full utilization of the whole team at any time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Float is perfect for the things we do with it. There is nothing that bothers me personally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adding users and basic set up is easy - adding new projects and moving bookings throughout the week, this gives us visibility of what is happening across teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Splitting bookings can be fiddly, would also be good to be aware of new features in the pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a simple interface and is very easy for anyone to use. New joiners can jump in straight away.

Makes life easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really. We are working on it talking to our accounts package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Float helps me prioritize my day, week, and even month. I can also see what the junior designers are working on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing off the top of my head... I'm not adding projects on Float though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scheduling is a priority in our busy studio, float makes this a breeze. The ability to report on the workflow and review any potential issues is critical for the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much to be honest. We also use Teamwork alongside this, so a tighter integration would be a benefit, especially with the time taken to sync. In an ideal world it would be realtime, however we understand that working with a 3rd party, features open to float may be limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've always liked using this app. It's super easy to use, I can access it on my phone too. I really like the fact that I can see other team member schedules as well as my own.

It would be amazing if you could build into Float and add the function to do have your own to-do lists. I think it would go great with the scheduling/planning features of the software.

Overall, great software that does the job - but could be more useful and embedded into customers' work life with some added features like to-do lists and other planning functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it can be frustrating when I've been double/overbooked for something and I can't reject/appeal/flag the booking in my schedule. It would be nice if I had more flexibility and control over my own schedule without PM's being able to book in whatever they please so that I can raise the double booking without having to reach them via another method of communication or even in person. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to set up working hours, teams and to allocate projects and tasks. Very clearly shows pinch points and spare capacity. Functionality to create recurring tasks helps give the work day a more realistic feel and encourages regular use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you need to significantly change when you have allocated tasks and/ or whole projects, it can be quite difficult. For these changes a detailed list view of tasks in a project (with date and user) would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

First of all, I really like the clean look of Floats interface. Everything is clearly structured and even with a high amount of people in the schedule section overview is given.

I am a big fan of numbers and statistics so I enjoy the "Reports" page the most. There I can see the current workload of my team and other company members.

Another nice to have feature is the "Projects" page which shows you information like budged and timeframe for each of your projects. To sum it up. Float is an all in one app. filled with all the information you need for resource planning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't really much I could wish for except one thing which isn't critical at all. I would love to have some more detailed customization options for all sections to personalize Float for my needs.

Also, a minor dislike from my side is the font withing the schedule section. Depending on the display variant you use + color of the tasks, it can be a little bit hard to read. But as I mentioned, it's a minor issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overall, it is very easy to input project and hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are project report and people report that are provided by Float. But I feel like there isn't a bridge to connect people and project. In many situations, we want to see what kinds of projects that people are working on. For example, for person A, we want to see a report that show for this week, A is working on project B for 4 hours a day, 20 hours a week, project C for 2 hours a day, 10 hours a week and project D for 2 hours a day, 10 hours a week, etc. If you can connect project and people, that would be very helpful for us to plan resource and estimate the cost for every project/client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Float is solves an issue we were having on our team in managing our bandwidth. We were looking for this type of software for a long time! One of the strongest points of this software is the different views on how to interpret project use time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do think the more time we spend in it, the more functions we want. It becomes complicated in that does it need to stay simple the way it is, or does it need to be a full blown project management software tool? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.