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Who it is for
An agency or delivery team can start with its ordinary working week, public holidays and approved time off, then allocate one project across people with different availability. That shows whether a promising project timeline is actually staffed. Set individual hours accurately before drawing conclusions from unused capacity or an overload warning.
Float's project plan emphasizes people, timelines, rates and budgets. It does not need to replace a team's detailed task execution tool: use it to decide who can do the work and what that staffing choice means for cost, then check how the organization will track the work itself.
The work it supports
Core capabilities
The Schedule allocates project work by hours per day or a percentage of each person's capacity. A manager can move dates, reassign work or split an allocation across people as priorities shift. This is useful for testing several feasible staffing patterns without rebuilding a spreadsheet each time.
Capacity is built from working days and hours, approved leave, public holidays and existing allocations. Float then shows scheduled utilization, remaining hours and overtime. Part-time or flexible schedules need their own availability settings; otherwise an apparent free slot may be misleading.
Over-capacity warnings and time off appear alongside allocations in the live Schedule. Review a conflict before moving work: an overbooked person can sometimes be relieved by splitting or reassigning an allocation, while approved leave is a real constraint to keep visible.
Project planning can bring roles, individual people, timelines, budget and resourcing scenarios into the same decision. A team can compare a tentative staffing idea against an approved one and see the availability or cost implications before committing dates to a client.
Project budgets can be based on time and materials, a fixed fee or fixed hours. Starter's burn view uses scheduled work; Pro and Enterprise can compare against logged time when time tracking is used. A fixed-fee-by-phase setup treats allocations made only at project level as nonbillable, so budget structure should match how the team actually assigns work.
On Pro, Float pre-fills timesheets from scheduled work and lets people confirm or adjust what they actually did. Timesheet deadlines and reminders can prompt submission. Compare scheduled with logged hours before treating utilization or budget figures as evidence of completed work.
Managers can filter the Schedule by person, department, tag or project and read utilization in hours or percentages. A common filtered view helps resource leads inspect a department or skill pool, but they should agree on the date range before comparing available capacity.
Understand the offer
Pricing and getting started
Float charges by active people who appear on the Schedule, including people who do not sign in. Guests who do not need to be scheduled can access the account without a paid scheduled seat. Count everyone who needs a capacity record, rather than only the users who will operate the app.
Starter includes core capacity and project planning with one complimentary placeholder. Pro adds time tracking, planned-versus-actual comparison, SSO and five placeholders; Enterprise is quote-led with an annual contract and additional service commitments. Legacy placeholders can count as paid seats, and extra placeholders beyond a plan's allowance can change the total.
The public plan cards at this capture displayed USD $7 Starter and $12 Pro per scheduled person per month, alongside a monthly/annual selector. Confirm which term those figures represent, the billing currency, tax and scheduled-person count at checkout. The 30-day trial defaults to Pro, so a team considering Starter should check which trial features would disappear on that plan.
Float says there is no project or client count limit on the trial or paid plans. That does not remove the scheduled-person charge; a firm with many projects and few schedulable people will price differently from one with a large roster of intermittent workers.
Look a little closer
Before you choose
Pilot an ordinary week with a full-time person, a part-time person, approved leave and two overlapping projects. Allocate by hours and then by percentage, move a booking, and compare the resulting utilization and overtime. That exercises the main planning value with fictional data before migrating a live staffing calendar.
If financial planning matters, create a sample fixed-fee project with a phase and log a small actual-time variance on Pro. Check how project-level allocations outside the phase appear, and whether the budget view is based on scheduled or logged work. This avoids confusing a forecast with an actual cost or billable amount.
Keep task execution in view during selection. Float says its project planning is organized around people, capacity and cost; confirm what the team will use for detailed task assignment and completion. Then estimate the billable roster, guests and placeholders before comparing Starter with Pro.
9 distinct sources behind this profile. Research observed Oct 21, 2026. Features and offers can change.
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