Float

Pros

An excellent tool for project management and time management, both for yourself and your work team

Cons

Although it is very comprehensive, it lacks tools to personalize more detailed or complex tasks for assigning to staff, like Trello or Asana does

Pros

Forecasting Budgets: Accurate resource planning is essential for budgeting. Float helps you manage capacity, plan projects, and forecast budgets effectively. It’s like having a financial advisor for your project resource.

Cons

As a Software there is no free version or trial version that do not require you to enter your banking detail

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Reasons for Switching to Float

Pros

The ease of managing projects costs and scheduling

Cons

When deleting an entry, you sometimes need to refresh the page to change the cursor back to normal

Pros

Easy to use program for a small business as a central place for tasks, projects and personal

Cons

Not being able to accurately time tasks, it would be really useful to have a timer instead of a logging system. No clear way of making tasks clear priorities for creative. System for logging could be better so that creatives can send any notes on incomplete/unstarted tasks back to the allocator.

Pros

Easy to use and understand. The new introduction of a mobile app has been great as you can now see your schedule wherever you are. The notifications system is good and allows you to be notified of changes immediately.

Cons

Our business allows multiple consultants to be assigned to specific work. In Float, you are unable to easily find other consultants working on the same project as you are without manually searching for it.

Pros

Implementing this software is amazingly easy. It gives the user a choice to apply several tactics and features to enable best working for this tool. Project management is now a renowned process which I take pride in. Editing is easy and makes using the software friendly for beginners and new members. The free trial is something to take celebrate.

Cons

Absolutely satisfying. I have no cons for Float. It has played it's role so perfectly.

Pros

Clear, minimalistic and great interface with awesome interactions/microinteractions. Integrations with tools like Asana, calendars, collaborations with the team, and simplicity of use! Fantastic mobile apps.

Cons

I don't have any points to add here, I have not had any problems using Float - maybe a desktop application for Mac would be useful ;)

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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

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Pros

This tool does exactly what its supposed to do for our Purposes. We are very glad to use it. On of the best features is the automated e-mail for the colleagues at the beginning of a sheduled week.

Cons

From our perspective there is likely nothin in particular to dislike.

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Pros

Ease of usage, its quite straight forward.

Cons

User Interface, which is so Basic.?The colour combination on screen are not great, so I get confused where to find what

Pros

- The feature I liked most about Float is its intuitive employee scheduling interface. It made managing shifts and schedules a breeze.- The impactful features for me include the project planning/scheduling tool, which helped in allocating resources and tracking milestones effectively.- The integration with existing business processes was relatively smooth, saving us time and effort.

Cons

- While most aspects are user-friendly, there were occasional instances where certain features felt a bit cumbersome to navigate.- The integration with existing processes did pose some challenges initially, requiring adjustments on our end to fully align.

Pros

It is a great tool to be integrated with jira - it works well for our team, it's a seamless, smooth integration that helps us estimate time & choose the right resource for any jira tasks. It is also easy to follow by the users who are marking tasks "complete", adding comments, mark bookings as tentative. All very clear and transparent.

Cons

The integration with google calendar doesn't work that well. Some of the bookings are wrong / outdated / are not being updated / duplicated / not being displayed in a correct project or are missing. Luckily, the support team is open to help with this kind of issues. Also, the annoying feature is that the "View in jira" link doesn't work for duplicated bookings. It doesn't work well for our team as more people use the same tasks on jira in different time. It's impossible to search using the jira ticket number (you have to know the ticket name). Also, ticket numbers are not displayed in the “Task” field- that causes some confusion because we work with tasks with similar names.

Pros

I really like using float for the first time in my 7 years of professional career as it helped me to move me from sticky notes to the web version of a kind of time table that I used to create for my day to day tasks. Its feature of scheduling has also helped my manager to have the right visibility of my work time as a result of which he has kept our work management balanced.

Cons

I have not used it ever on mobile phone and have listened my friends complaining about its GUI (Graphic User Interface) limitation on mobile phones as compared to other apps. So, I think mobile users needs to have better features as well similar to web users.

Pros

Scheduling is easy for both myself and others. My office operates of a flexible hybrid schedule so its great that I can also indicate what days I will be in the office.

Cons

With the introduction of hybrid work after covid, I use float to indicate what days I am in the office using the status feature that already exists. For tax purposes, It would be very useful if I as an individual employee could export the days and hours each day that I worked from home for the past year.

Pros

Time management. Collegues and managers can know when i'm available and what bandwith i have.

Cons

Nothing that i can think of. I like every aspect

Pros

UI is excellent. I like it very much. I am very comfortable managing a team's work as well as my own

Cons

In the past, I said that the logging button is hard to find on the navbar. Now this button is clearly visible. I'm grateful to Float for listening to customers

Pros

Easy to use and has a great structure of UI design

Cons

Sometimes I find it too difficult to set up new projects, that option could be less complex

Pros

Clearer timelines improve productivity.""Team collaboration made effortless.""Real-time tracking saves guesswork.""Resource allocation is now a breeze.""Easier planning, better outcomes

Cons

Lacks certain advanced features.""Syncing issues with other tools.""Pricey for small teams.""UI can be occasionally clunky.""Needs better notification settings

Pros

Float makes managing a team's workload easier. I would be lost without it.

Cons

I don't have any issues with Float. Perhaps I need to explore the functionality further as currently I only use it for scheduling.

Pros

Easy to use and share across different users

Cons

Adding more people to the team difficult or limited licensestracking budget adding leave and leave alternatives

Pros

One dashboard, one overview of all resources and it integrates with our job creation tool which makes it super easy for timesheets. Moving jobs to other days is just a drag and drop away.

Cons

It would be awesome, if a job doesn't exist in our job management tool, if float could create it via push.

Pros

I enjoy how simple it is. Software these days can feel bloated and overwhelming and in a digital age, Float has the right balance of features and lack of, to simplify the project management process.

Cons

I wish that float had a project management feature like asana built in so we wouldn't have to use both. I prefer float!

Pros

In a consultancy environment ability to have a view of what the full team are working on is essential, helps with planning ahead and managing capacity

Cons

It is difficult to get a few of how many person hours are assigned to a project/ task. This would be useful from a budgeting perspective.

Pros

I like how simple and easy it is to use, makes doing timesheets a breeze!

Cons

My cursor gets stuck after I add/delete/split. I have to refresh the page to get back to normal cursor mode.

Pros

It i super easy to use. It is also very flexible and adaptable with user permissions.

Cons

I would like more integrations with other tools like slack and Jira.