Projects help you organize your tasks, team, and important milestones together in one place.​ Projects can be created by the Account Owner, Billing guests, Admins, and Managers with Add and manage Projects, including budgets if viewable permission.

There are a few different ways to add a project:

When adding a new project, you can choose to create a new blank project (draft, tentative, or confirmed) or use one of the existing project templates.

📝Note: Selecting Always start from a confirmed project hides your templates when adding a new project. To show templates again, go to the Projects page, select Manage templates, and enable Show templates when I create new projects.

For each project, you can add a name and a color.

📝Note: The project name field has a 255-character limit. Leaving the project name field blank will result in a project called *New Project.

Project details can be set up and edited in the configuration panel. It consists of six sections:

The Info section contains general information about the project.

If your team has project codes enabled in Team Settings > Clients & Project codes, you can assign a unique code to each project. This field is useful for tracking job or project numbers that are specific to your organization.

The Owner field lets you assign the Project Owner - the person responsible for the project. By default, the project creator is set as the owner, but ownership can be reassigned to any team member with access rights.

In the Status field, you can set your project to be a Draft, Tentative, or Confirmed. 

The Draft status allows teams to test different project configurations—such as team members, dates, or phases—without displaying them on the live schedule. This is especially helpful when exploring scenarios before confirming a project.

Draft project visibility is limited: their allocations, phases, and milestones appear only in the Project Plan and Project View, shown as dashed outlines.

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Draft projects are not visible to Managers unless they are the Project Owners or the Managers with ‘manage projects’ permission can edit this project setting is enabled for the project. 

The Tentative status is best for work that is yet to be confirmed. Tentative projects are visible to all team members with access to view projects. 

Allocations from the tentative projects, their phases, and milestones are displayed as color outlines on the Schedule, Project plan, and Project view, indicating that these items are not yet finalized.

Allocations, phases, and milestones belonging to projects with Confirmed status are displayed as colored tiles.

Changing the project status from Draft to Tentative will make all planned allocations, phases, and milestones visible on the Schedule.

Changing the project status from Draft to Confirmed will:

Changing the project status from Confirmed to Tentative will:

Changing the project status from Confirmed or Tentative to Draft will:

You can set the project as billable or non-billable. To have billable and non-billable phases and tasks within a project, set the project to billable and manage individual phases and tasks in the Phases and Tasks sections.

In the Client field, you can choose an existing client from the list or add a new one. Your team’s Account Owner and Admins can manage clients in Team settings > Clients & Project codes. 

To add a new project tag, type its name or select one from the drop-down menu. You can sort and filter any Float page using project tags. Your team’s Account Owner and Admins can manage tags in Team settings > Tags.

Project dates are automatically adjusted based on the first and last allocation, phase, milestone, or logged time record belonging to this project. While you can set the project dates when creating a project, you can’t manually set:

- a start date that’s after the first allocation/phase/milestone/logged time

- an end date that’s before the last allocation/phase/milestone/logged time.

To adjust your project dates, you’ll need to first move the allocations, phases, milestones, or logged time records that are constraining your date range.

You can add any additional information to your project here. The character limit for project notes is 1500.

💡Here's a tip: To mention someone in a project note, type @ followed by their name. Depending on their notification preferences, they’ll receive an alert via email, Slack, or mobile push.

Enable the Managers with ‘manage projects’ permission can edit this project checkbox to allow any Manager with that permission to edit the project. If this box is unchecked, Managers can only edit the project if they’ve been added to the project team in the Team section. Admins and the Account Owner always have editing access. 

The estimates are saved snapshots of your project’s data at specific points in time. The Estimates section lists all saved estimates, with the baseline estimate shown as the default.

From here, you can see who created each estimate and when, edit its description, or delete it entirely. You can also change which estimate is set as the baseline and view the estimate report.

The Budget section lets you define the budget for your project. You can either set it to No budget or choose from one of the seven available budget types:

💡Here's a tip: A green dot next to the team member’s name indicates that they already have some time scheduled for this project. If no time is scheduled, the dot is grey.

📝Note: If you’d like to add them to the project team, use the action menu and choose the Grant project level access.

If a team member used to work on a project but has been archived, the Archived indicator will be displayed next to their name. All their historical data remains intact and can still be viewed in the reports.

Removing a person from a project permanently deletes all of their scheduled and logged time for that project. This action is irreversible.

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You can set either a custom hourly bill rate for each team member or apply the same bill rate to everyone on the project team. When you add a new person to the project, their personal bill rate is applied by default, but you can override it with a project-specific rate. Changing a team member’s bill rate for one project won’t affect their rates on other projects.

Use +Add to add people to a project individually. To assign multiple people at once, use the bulk actions available on the People page.

​📝Note: Currently, there is no limit to the number of team members you can add to a project - each project can include an unlimited number of team members.

The Phases section lets you add project phases and set their color and dates. If your project budget is tracked per phase, you can also enter the budget details directly in this section.

📝Note: By default, a phase inherits the project color, but you can change it at any time.

To set additional phase details, click on a phase to open it in the side panel. Here, you can define the phase status, budget, team, tasks, milestones, and other settings, much like how you manage project-level details.

​📝Note: While you can set the tentative phases within a confirmed project, creating confirmed phases in a tentative project is not supported.

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The Tasks section houses all of your project tasks. It does not include phase-specific tasks, which are listed under their corresponding phases.​ Tasks are useful to help group allocations on the reports. You can add new tasks to this list before assigning them to your team or when allocating time. Any task assigned to a team member on the Schedule, Project plan, or Project view is automatically added to this list on the project menu.

​​💡 Here's a tip: Already scheduled tasks have a green dot displayed next to them.

📝Note: Currently, there are no limits on the number of tasks allowed on a project—you can have an unlimited number of tasks in each project.

Within a billable project, you can mark individual tasks as non-billable. These non-billable tasks are excluded from the project budget, and any allocations scheduled for them do not count against the budget. However, non-billable allocations on a billable project are still tracked in reports, allowing you to monitor internal spend.

You can select two or more tasks and merge them into one. When tasks are merged, all instances—including scheduled and logged time—are updated to reflect the new task name.

To remove a task, select the task name and click Delete.

If you attempt to remove a task that has been scheduled or used, Float will prompt you to confirm the deletion. Click the bin icon to proceed. This will permanently delete all instances of the task from Float, including all scheduled and logged time associated with it. Note that this action is irreversible. If you don’t intend to lose this data, consider reassigning allocations to another task before deleting, or use the merge option instead. 

Enabling the Managers with ‘manage projects’ permission can add to this list option locks the task list, ensuring that your team can only schedule and log tasks from the approved list. To help keep things organized, the task list is locked by default for new projects, but you can unlock it at any time if needed.

📝Note: Locking the project task list also applies to all the project’s phases.​ If Managers with ‘manage projects’ permission can add to this list is selected, Managers with manage projects permission who are just the contributors to the project (and not the Project Owners) can add new tasks in the project settings. When allocating time on the Schedule, they will need to select one of the existing tasks.

The Milestones section allows you to add new milestones or manage the existing ones. Milestones are great for tracking important events within a project’s lifecycle. Milestones can be set as a date or a date range.

To access the project’s action menu, click the three vertical dots icon located at the top right corner of the project side panel.