About Float

Float is the resource management software that keeps teams of 5 to 1,000+ in sync. Schedule tasks quickly with a real-time view of availability, including time off and public holidays. See your team’s capacity and utilization at a glance to optimize assigned work. Connect with project management, calendar, and communication workflows via direct integrations. Keep project plans up to date with easy bulk edits. Scale up compliance with approval workflows and access permissions. Try for free (no credit card).

Pricing starting from:

US$6.00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

Key benefits of Float

One shared resource schedule, always in sync - Visualize your team’s workload in one place. Drag and drop to assign tasks with ease and edit tasks on the fly with handy shortcuts. Add unassigned roles to plan ahead for future hires, and store tasks while you’re waiting to confirm resources.

Multi-project Planning - With a single view of all your resources, you can plan your team’s time across multiple projects on the go. Set budgets and target milestones to keep your projects on track and reallocate resources before it’s too late!

Team Availability - Manage your team’s availability with set work hours, public holidays, and scheduled time off. See who’s free, who’s overbooked, and who’s kicking back on vacation—all at a glance.

Forecasting & reports - Powerful reporting features so you can monitor your team’s utilization. Set project budgets based on hours or dollars and forecast your capacity to plan ahead accurately.

Time Tracking - Add time tracking to your schedule so your team can log hours in a single-click against scheduled tasks, or quickly adjust their estimates and submit their actual hours worked. It’s the fastest way to compare your estimates vs. actuals and monitor whether your projects are on, under, or over budget

Apps and integrations - Float has a mobile app for iOS and Android and integrates with Slack, Google Calendar, Outlook, Zapier, and more.

Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premise

Countries available

Australia, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada and 17 others

Supported Languages

English

Pricing starting from:

US$6.00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Float Software - A single view of your team's capacity and workload
Float Software - Manage your team's availability on autopilot
Float Software - Create and visualize project timelines and task dependencies
Float Software - Fast and easy-to-use resource scheduling tools

Features

Total features of Float: 106

  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Assignment Management
  • Automated Scheduling
  • Availability Management
  • Billable & Non-Billable Hours
  • Budget Management
  • Budget Tracking
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Calendar Management
  • Calendar Sync
  • Campaign Analytics
  • Campaign Management
  • Capacity Management
  • Client Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Contract/License Management
  • Contractor Management
  • Cost Estimating
  • Cost-to-Completion Tracking
  • Customisable Reports
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Visualisation
  • Deadline Management
  • Document Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Due Date Tracking
  • Employee Activity Monitoring
  • Employee Database
  • Employee Management
  • Employee Scheduling
  • Estimating
  • For AEC Industry
  • Forecasting
  • Gantt/Timeline View
  • Group Scheduling
  • Issue Tracking
  • Job Costing
  • Labor Forecasting
  • Live Chat
  • Messaging
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Location
  • Multiple Projects
  • Online Time Clock
  • Online Time Tracking Software
  • Overtime Calculation
  • Performance Metrics
  • Planning Tools
  • Portfolio Management
  • Prioritisation
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Estimating
  • Project Management
  • Project Planning
  • Project Planning/Scheduling
  • Project Scheduling
  • Project Time Tracking
  • Project Tracking
  • Project Workflow
  • Projections
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Real-time Scheduling
  • Reminders
  • Remote Access/Control
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Resource Allocation & Planning
  • Resource Management
  • Resource Scheduling
  • Risk Management
  • Schedule Distribution
  • Scheduling
  • Search/Filter
  • Sick Leave Tracking
  • Skills Tracking
  • Staff Calendar
  • Status Tracking
  • Tagging
  • Task Editing
  • Task Management
  • Task Planning
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Task Scheduling
  • Task Tagging
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time & Attendance
  • Time & Expense Tracking
  • Time Tracking
  • Time Zone Tracking
  • Timesheet Management
  • Utilisation Reporting
  • Vacation/Leave Tracking
  • Visualisation
  • Workflow Management

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Reviews

Overall rating

4.5 /5
(1,605)
Value for Money
4.4/5
Features
4.2/5
Ease of Use
4.5/5
Customer Support
4.5/5

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Stren
Stren
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great platform for staffing and management

Reviewed on 31/08/2023

A good platform to manage: who, what and when. Float has maintained the visual people focus I love...

A good platform to manage: who, what and when. Float has maintained the visual people focus I love about the original product. Integrates well with our data compliance and avoids budget/client confidential data which will need to stay on our intranet. Presentation mode and time split functions are areas to grow functionality.

Pros

Intuitive and easy to use, focus on work schedule not project budget.

Cons

Updates are not always realtime forced page reloads required which can be troublesome for the team.

Alternatives Considered

LiquidPlanner, monday.com and Evernote Teams

Reasons for Switching to Float

Price, easy of use, data compliance.
Antony
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  • Industry: Environmental Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

FLOAT - EI

Reviewed on 10/05/2024

Pros

minimalistic style makes it easy to identify different tasks and task blocks

Cons

It's a bit basic in terms of what you can do with scheduling, could be more autonomous when assigning tasks in terms of setting your own colour permanently

Gauthier
Overall rating
  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Useful software but seems old fashioned

Reviewed on 24/02/2024

Pros

Easy to use. Easy to export data.
We used it during several years but we decided to switch to a more up to date software.

Cons

You can’t lock the hours, so every time a user is changing something you can’t justify your invoicing and reporting anymore.
Looks a bit old fashioned.

Varsha
Overall rating
  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Float is in the air

Reviewed on 14/06/2024

Pros

Float has a fantastic UI and extremely easy to use
It also caters to specific team types like consulting while recognizing the work we do for external clients

Cons

It could have a better project search functionality. It is a bit glitchy

François
Overall rating
  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Need a full integration to be useful

Reviewed on 09/04/2024

Pros

The possibilities with float are very high, we could have done so much more to get the most of that software.

Cons

The redundance of the tasks, but it's more due to the use we do of the software than the software itself.

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Float FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Float.

Float offers the following pricing plans:

Only $6 per active user when billed annually. Guests, archived users, and projects are all unlimited!

Float has the following typical customers:

11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Float supports the following languages:

English

Float supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Float integrates with the following applications:

Asana, Google Calendar, Jira, Microsoft Outlook, Okta, OneLogin, Slack, Teamwork.com, Trello, WorkflowMax, Zapier

Float offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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