Float reviews

Keep Your Business Afloat

Opmerkingen: Overall, I would recommend Float as a useful tool for managing cash flow and making financial decisions. Its intuitive interface, powerful scenario feature, and the ability to link to existing accounting software make it a helpful addition to any business’s financial toolkit. However, the cost may be a barrier for some businesses, so it’s important to carefully evaluate the pricing plans before committing to the software.

Pluspunten:

Float is a cloud-based cash flow forecasting and management software designed for small and medium-sized businesses. As a user of Float, I find the software to be a helpful tool for managing cash flow and making financial decisions. One of the primary benefits of using Float is the ability to visualize future cash flow, which is useful for planning and forecasting. One of the key advantages of Float is its intuitive interface, which makes it easy to use and navigate. The software allows you to link to your existing accounting software, which means that data can be automatically imported into Float. This saves a lot of time and reduces the chance of errors, which is particularly important when dealing with financial data. Another benefit of Float is the ability to create multiple scenarios, which can be used to model different financial outcomes.

Minpunten:

One of the potential downsides of using Float is that the software can be expensive, particularly for small businesses. The pricing plans are based on the number of cash flow forecasts that you need to create, and this can add up quickly.

An Outstanding Float Experience

Opmerkingen: Overall, my experience with Float has been overwhelmingly positive. The user-friendly interface and the customer support have made it one of my favorite scheduling tools. I'm able to easily organize and plan my tasks and I'm able to move and adjust my schedule with ease. The only issue I have encountered is the lack of an integrated time tracking feature, which can be a bit of a hassle.

Pluspunten:

Float is an excellent scheduling tool that I have been using for months now. It is user-friendly, intuitive and the customer service is top-notch. I love the flexibility of the platform, which enables me to easily move and adjust my schedule when needed. It's a great way to keep organized and on top of my tasks.

Minpunten:

Only negativity I've experienced with Float is the fact that it doesn't have an integrated time tracking feature. This means I have to manually keep track of the time I spend on each task, making it a bit cumbersome.

Great value. Lots of potential

Opmerkingen: I've been using CETA scheduling software for the last 4 years in big VFX companies and I must say that Float is not there yet but is actually getting broadly comparable. In the last 4 months that I introduced it into my new team it's proved to be quite useful to keep track of the progression of our projects. During these months I've seen that it has already improved in many areas that I'm excited to see what comes next.
I can see it can become a really powerful software.

Pluspunten:

There aren't may softwares that let you schedule a team in such an easy and organised way. I think most softwares nowadays are too complex and make you spend more time organising tasks than actually working on them. Float is so clear and simple you can actually use it to manage big projects without spending too much time on it.

Minpunten:

It's getting better, but it would be very useful if we could: - Right click on a pencil and be able to copy it over into a different person. - Book more than one person on the same project (for example if two workers are on the same project because one of them is doing a training but you don't want to charge twice for that time). - Lately when I try to schedule more than 1 project in one day on the same person I get a message saying I can't schedule anyone for more than 24 hours) even if I'm not exceeding the 8 normal working hours. It'd be great if that could be fixed. - It'd be good if milestones were more visible. - I think reports should be a bit less complicated and more visual. - It'd be really helpful if you could group projects up in folders when you go to the Projects tab as at the moment we have like... 45 different projects going on and although we color code them it's difficult to organise all of them. -I'd like to have more than only three types of view when looking at our schedules a part from 'Days, 'Weeks' and 'Months'. It'd be great if you could 'Archive' users as well as projects. So when a worker it's not working at the company anymore and you don't want to pay for it on Float you can kind of 'Archive' him (so you are not able to book him on anything but still you can see him on the boards so you don't loose what it's been scheduled on him.)

Float is your management tool for a good business.

Opmerkingen: Monthly cost is very low, services are great, support is wonderful, interface is a wow.

Pluspunten:

Sync. of Float with other calendars such as Outlook and google makes life easier to work. All the reminders sent are great.

Minpunten:

Could not find anything wrong with this software.

Effective Resource Management with Float: A Review

Opmerkingen: Overall, I've been pleased with my experience using Float for managing my team's resources. It's easy to use and keeps everyone organized, but the mobile app could be better.

Pluspunten:

Float has made managing my team's workload a breeze. The drag-and-drop interface is intuitive and the real-time updates keep everyone on the same page. Highly recommend!

Minpunten:

While Float has a lot of great features, the mobile app could use some improvement. It's not very user-friendly and often crashes.

Great for a high level, resource management tool.

Pluspunten:

Its a user friendly tool that makes resource management and managing a team of 40 with varying skillsets, availability, and calendars feasible.

Minpunten:

It is not customizable, few api integrations that have worked, no development hope even when communicating with brand reps. You almost are forced to use it as is, off the shelf, or not at all.

Streamline Team Management with Float

Opmerkingen: Overall, Float is a great tool and is well-suited for teams of all sizes. Its ability to manage tasks and schedule in one centralized place, along with its user-friendly interface, make it a valuable tool for keeping teams organized and on track. Additionally, easy collaboration and communication features make it easy for teams to stay connected and work together effectively.

Pluspunten:

Float is a project management and team scheduling software that allows teams to manage their tasks and schedule at one centralized place which makes it easy for them to ensure that everything is on track. Additionally, the platform is fully customizable, so teams can tailor it to their specific needs.The platform has a user-friendly interface that makes it convenient for users to navigate to the information they need. Another great feature of Float is its scheduling tool. It allows users to assign resources, and track progress. This helps to ensure that there are no delays or missed deadlines.It also allows easy collaboration and communication between team members, which helps to keep everyone on the same page.

Minpunten:

Float currently has limited integration options with other tools and platforms, so teams may need to use multiple tools to manage their work. While it provides some basic reporting and analytics, it lags in many advanced features. Float does have a mobile app, it may not have as many features as the web version of the platform. And the pricing model may not be suitable for teams with limited budget

Planning projects with Float

Opmerkingen: For an economical price it is a useful tool that satisfies medium-sized project planning and budget control.

Pluspunten:

A very important feature is the ability to run detailed reports such as the budget report that allows management to ensure that costs are on budget. Float is simple to use, but requires time to explore and manage all your resources.

Minpunten:

It is suitable for managing small to medium-sized projects, but not for large ones. This is due to the fact that a large project requires multiple tasks in the same project and some of them in the long term, a disadvantage that Float sometimes does not manage.

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Pluspunten:

it can easily integrate with other tools,has customization options.

Minpunten:

pricing is to high and compare to other products it has limited features.

Effortless Team Scheduling with Float

Opmerkingen: Float has been a game-changer for our team's scheduling and resource management. The intuitive drag-and-drop feature has made scheduling much faster and more efficient. Real-time updates and notifications keep everyone informed and on schedule. I highly recommend this tool for teams looking to streamline their scheduling process.

Pluspunten:

Float has made scheduling and resource management for my team a smooth and efficient process. The drag-and-drop scheduling feature is user-friendly and quick to use. The real-time updates and notifications keep everyone on the same page.

Minpunten:

Float's integration options with other tools are limited. The mobile app could benefit from further functionality improvements.

Development company taking next steps in project management

Opmerkingen: A very positive experience allowing the company I work for to get better more accurate project plans and financial reports.

Pluspunten:

The ease of use as a one stop shop, browser based to allow all the development team (and subsiduary but linked teams) to see important dates like dev complete, bug fix windows, cert windows and release dates. The ability to quickly block out time for features and projects. The ability to add notes and details to tasks. Fully fleshed out holiday and time off structure. Robust financial reports possible with very high degree of accuracy for budget per project, per quarter, per annum. We used to get by with using Excel, we invested in Float and it has taken the companies' project planning to the next step. I would recommend Float for small to mid sized companies definitely, it is a great product boost and good way of reporting and seeing issues early.

Minpunten:

it does not allow you to easily move a bunch of small tasks along in the timeline, that's my only main gripe, you can't band box select you have to shift select. Everything else is intuitive and easy.

Excellent tool for team scheduling and follow-ups

Opmerkingen: Our company went from 1 to 5 people in the past year. We also have interns or students that are only here for a while. We now have a tool that allows us to follow up projects and team schedules in a very clear way without creating big overhead costs. It works fast and efficient for us.

Pluspunten:

Easy to use. We can view the schedule of the entire team in one screen and make instant changes if necessary.

Minpunten:

When creating tasks, the difference between creating projects and clients can be annoying. Also: provide more colours! ;-)

Great software for planning but missing some features.

Opmerkingen: Overall I am very satisfied with Float, as it allowed me to save a lot of time in my planning activity and provided the company with a tool that everyone can use.

Pluspunten:

I really like the possibility of having a global view of the activities and the possibility of having a fast (very fast) synchronization with the Outlook calendar. Furthermore, it is really useful to assign different roles to people in order to define planning permissions.

Minpunten:

I am not crazy about the graphic style of the calendar / schedule view. Hiding over the weekend it is difficult to see at a glance the separation between the various weeks. Also there is no translation of the portal in Italian, not a serious deficiency, but if there were it would be better :) It also lacks the ability to view your schedule in a daily agenda format in order to have a more precise schedule of your commitments, as you can do through outlook.

Best Visual Project Management Tool I've Found

Opmerkingen: It has allowed us to essentially self-manage projects without having to have a dedicated PM on staff.

Pluspunten:

We love the ease of use of Float to visualize our team's schedule. It allows us to quickly see how our people are resourced and make adjustments on the fly with the draggable task blocks. It was extremely easy to set-up and implement with our team and projects–no tutorial or laborious how-to required!

Minpunten:

We use the basic features for an easy workflow overview so it covers all the features we would need.

Great for balancing our resources

Opmerkingen: I think Float is having a real positive impact on our project management team and is becoming more the useful the more we use it.

Pluspunten:

As both a user and administrator of Float at our company I'd say my favourite feature is the UI design of Float. It looks great and I never have to to look hard to find the information I need - it's all very intuitive. I also love the daily email digests that come through. Way better than any 'to do' software I have tried in the past. The reports visualisation is fantastic too, and is something I'm only just discovering.

Minpunten:

I'd love to use time logging / timesheets but cannot for the life of me figure this part out!

User-friendly, with a few interesting quirks!

Opmerkingen: Float allows us to better plan our week / month as teams, and gives us better visibility over time spent on projects.

Pluspunten:

As a company we've just moved to this from Trello as we needed time logging projects. So far this has been really useful, and we're getting a much clearer picture against the budget of a project. The scheduling side is something we're really valuing too, integrating this into Slack means we can see the work we've been scheduled on, how much time we've got booked in for it, and plan our days more easily.

Minpunten:

Tasks- we have set this up to be a bit more like Trello for us- but because of that we miss the checklists functionality of Trello, particularly as we could organise sets of tasks for a project using a checklist. We use tasks in place of this, but these will only list alphabetically. If we number them, we can go up to 10 before the logic fails and adding '11' means the list goes 1, 11, 3, 4, 5.... and so on!

Integral part of our internal production process

Opmerkingen: Float has honestly been a game changer for our studio and as a result, the wider business. The minute we first started using the platform, it transformed the way we visualise our busy schedules and communicated with the wider teams about our availability and timelines. It's made our lives easier and simplified the overall production process - taking a lot of guesswork and confusion out of the equation.

Pluspunten:

The simplicity and immediacy of the timeline interface is massively important for digesting and understanding an often hectic and clogged schedule. Customisation of clients, projects and tasks means that we can see, at a glance, exactly what clients and projects we are working with - it takes a lot of the project management stress out of the process for teams like mine, who need to focus on their own tasks at hand.

Minpunten:

I think there could be more options to input information within the tasks in a schedule - although there is a notes section, it would be great to see more integration with other platforms like the Google suite (Drive, slides, docs) that could streamline our process even more.

Float Review

Opmerkingen: We used to use a HUGE white board and dry erase markers for our schedule. We thought that this was the best way for us to tackle our job scheduling and Float was met with a bit of resistance once the boss said we were going to try it.
WOW, were we wrong. I would never look back now that we are using Float. One of the best tools we ever used. We are scheduling anywhere from 18 to 26 techs on this program and I fully encourage anyone even thinking of possibly trying out a program for scheduling to do your self a favor and try out Float. I'd be shocked if your not impressed by it.

Pluspunten:

Kudos to you guys! I love the newer faster Float! You are making my job much easier & faster. Love the faster navigating/scrolling and the changing of a task’s time by scrolling on the schedule up or down beats the hell out of having to open the task and do it from there. Love the new feature that you can hover over the work task and the notes appear without having to open the task. Great job, keep it up!

Minpunten:

Would like to be able to move a task to the afternoon (or lower in the cell) for a day where it is not a full days worth of hours and there is nothing else for that employee that day. Example, I have a technician on a 4 hour training course and it is in the afternoon. He has nothing else scheduled that day but I can't move the task lower in the cell so it looks like it is scheduled for the morning. It would be nice if you could hover over the "Time off" cells and see the notes associated with it , like you can for a work task, without having to open the "time off" cell.

Great Visual Tool for Resource Management

Opmerkingen: We've been able to better project planning times for business needs coming in. When we know how long something takes via Float, we're able to give clearer milestones to our clients and we can manage our internal deadlines better. When you're able to take a quick peak at Float and see what someone is working on for the next few days, it's a more efficient way to manage resourcing expectations internally and across business units internally.

Pluspunten:

With Float, I love that you can make instant decisions on capacity management. I can assign someone a scheduled task and easily move the task back and forth between two team members if needed. It's a great visual tool to see how long people are spending in a certain area and to help plan ahead for the future. It gives a full visual picture of capacity and resource management, which can be hard to do. I love that you're able to assign color coding and different notes to each project, so you can monitor the health of the project properly and understand how many people are actually touching it.

Minpunten:

Sometimes, there are some small glitches that happen, where you make an update and it either disappears or adds additional time to someone's schedule (making them fully at capacity). There aren't many cons to this application other than that because sometimes it can just take a lot of refreshing and some rework because sometimes the refreshes can cause a loss in information inputted.

Good for visibility

Pluspunten:

Easy to use and it's simple to scroll backwards to check your historical or upcoming bookings. As a user it does all I need it to do.

Minpunten:

I've previously used Synergist which was great for production resources as all the bookings automatically pre-populated timesheets ready to add hours and submit. I'm not sure if Float has this functionality but our organisation uses separate systems for both, and I find it does add a little more effort to time logging.

Easy to use and efficient time management tool

Opmerkingen: My overall experience with float has been extremely positive. Compared to similar products we've used in the past this is the easiest to use, and we have fewer problems than with other software.

Pluspunten:

Integration with our business was very straightforward, and there are very few problems that arise when using float on the daily. The schedule updates immediately and its very easy to keep track of an entire teams workload at a glance.

Minpunten:

Sometimes I have issues adding in new tasks to the system, but this is quite rare.

Long terme planning tool

Opmerkingen: Always have a good view on my team's future.

Pluspunten:

In a blink of an eye, I can see who's busy on what, and for how long. It let me give a clear idea of planning for upcoming projects, see who's available for it and who's on holiday. Also, it let me check if we take too long to finish a project or not (by setting up a budget forecast).

Minpunten:

It would be good to integrate other tools like Yadera or Monday.com. Also, I'd like to have an easier view on days split into different tasks (one per day is really clear, but as soon as you have 2-4 tasks a day, it's harder to read).

Resource View

Opmerkingen: It would be a perfect project management tool but needs more work. We are purely using it to manage resources and have other tools/softwares supplementing.

Pluspunten:

The visual look and similarity to the age old resourcing view that came out of excel. It makes scheduling easy

Minpunten:

Spilt and having to right click and come back to add/edit every single time. Generally its working well for what we require of it

Great software

Opmerkingen: Float allows the entire studio to understand what they're booked on and gives the managers a greater understanding of when tasks are completed.

Pluspunten:

Float is a really helpful piece of software, especially for running studio resourcing. The flexibility of being able to move jobs between different resources is great. Definitely one of the easiest resourcing tools i've used.

Minpunten:

After doing a a few resource moves the system gets a bit buggy and you have to refresh or sometimes log out and log back in again to see the changes you've made.

A great solution for a small team with room to grow

Opmerkingen: Not having to rely on tools that weren't built for this purpose to achieve the desired output is fantastic. Excel is for numbers and spreadsheets, not managing project.

Pluspunten:

I love that this is an affordable, web-based, easy to configure and use tool that is extremely flexible. There's a lot of power in only asking for as much information as is needed in order to be useful. It's a great visual way to manage projects and people and to get a sense of how people's workload is at any given moment. As an end user, it's great to be able to see how my week is looking at the start so that anything that comes up can be managed and it's a burden to try and juggle it all.

Minpunten:

Float very much purpose-built to schedule work, but there are a number of features that are present in more project-focused solutions which are lacking-- namely time tracking and dependencies. However, adding some of these features might sacrifice that which makes Float great at what it does, simplicity.