Navigation - Freeze or make sticky to save scrolling
Can the main pull down bar (Dashboard, Business, Accounting, Projects, Contacts) be fixed at the top of the page? When viewing a screen that has 100 or more lines, it would be a lot more convenient to have immediate access to this than having to scroll all the way back up.
Thanks for your engagement here, Charl. While not a complete solution you may find the use of the 'Home' button on your keyboard helps you quickly navigat back up the page 🙂
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Ellen Taylor commented
I Agree with Mike Mori. Xero great for new start ups . Not so good for users of established businesses. Accountants love it because like Sage in the old days it is rigid. They can get the standard reports without deviation their staff don't have to think. Users have to work within the business they are in, after over 50 years of working in various industries I can categorically state no 2 businesses are the same. Accounts have to be to a certain format but as the users are the ones doing the work things such as finding themselves on a random unrelated page when using the back button is an irritating, frustrating waste of time. Xero has quite a few such quirks that I find very strange in 2024 when desktop software was more more sophisticated even in 1999 when I was introduced to QuickBooks Desktop. Progress? Hardly.
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Mike Mori commented
@Kelly Munro. I have been a XERO-only practice and converted over 250 businesses from MYOB, Quickbooks, Sage and Excel onto Xero since December 2007 - 17 years ago. I am so grateful that the system is probably the most accounting-wise robust and reliable and has impressive features that most users are not aware of, BUT, "the little foxes that spoil the vines" - Song of Solomon 2:15-17. These small things spoil the user experience for Bookkeepers, not Accountants. Why do I say this? Accountants typically run reports while bookkeepers enter and process the data so accountants can run the reports. Bookkeepers don't have the time to write posts like this, so they don't. This gives Xero the false security that everything is fine and only a few complain. Rant complete.
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Mike Mori commented
....and the "End" button (and Page-up/down) to go to the bottom of the screen, but that does not solve the problem. I appreciate that we want the maximum screen space to be able to work, but any half-decent website designer can build a menu banner that disappears when you are working and appears when you attempt to scroll up. I am positive that if Xero commissioned the 1000-odd engineers who work at Xero to come up with a solution and offered them a free bar lunch as a prize, someone would provide a solution. Maybe even OPEN-AI will do it for them.
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Alan Hollinshead commented
The Home button works if only I had known this years ago.
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Freya Pieroz commented
Hi @Kelly Munro
Sadly, not all keyboards have a home key, especially if you're using a laptop.
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Alan Hollinshead commented
The fact that the Blue navigation bar does not stay at the top of the page is annoying and time consuming. I am seriously considering moving away from xero.
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Lesley Sharp commented
Yes. Having the menu fixed to the top of the screen is essential, and it isn't hard to do either. I did it on my own Webflow site. And if I can do it, any idiot can. Make it so, Xero!
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Ellen Taylor commented
I agree, having it at the bottom of a long report is irritating
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Steven Breese commented
It would also be great to have the export button static too...either at the top or bottom of the screen. This would also save unnecessary scrolling
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Julie Corderoy commented
Blue menu bar - this should be frozen in place so that it is always accessible, rather than having to scroll to the top or press ctrl + home.
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Steve Moore commented
Strange that this is still not done. simple fix with huge benefits for users
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Katie Haslam commented
I think I would find this extremely helpful (and hopefully it's an easy fix!)
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Ann Pearson commented
It would be amazing if this was sorted. It is probably the most annoying thing about Xero and as another post also suggests, it would provide better clarity and generally improve efficiency moving around Xero.
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Mike Mori commented
It would be EXTREMELY helpful if the blue banner heading and menu bar at the top of the page in Xero was frozen so that it is not lost when you scroll down.
Firstly, it gives you peace of mind when you are processing data, that you are in the correct client or business, by just glancing to the top left. Secondly, it saves loads of time not having to scroll up to be able to choose a different menu. I hope this is helpful to all your subscribers. I have attached screenshots from the Demo account in .doc and .pdf to see -
Chris Hughes commented
Like Sarah, I have the same frustrationj of having to scroll up what at times can be a long way
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Lea Brown commented
Please lock headings - it would be VERY helpful not to scroll back to headings every time you choose/change a different tab.
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Colin Ware commented
This would be a great convenience factor.
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Annie Monkman commented
Please can the main headers be fixed (i.e. those shown in the blue header at the top of the page), in a similar way to the way you have just introduced sticky headers within reports. I often open additional tabs as I work and it is frustrating having to scroll the current page back to the top in order to be able to open a new tab.
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Sarah Greenhill commented
It would be great if the blue menu bar stayed at the top of the screen all the time. If you've scrolled down a long report and want to change screen it can be a pain to have to scroll back up to the top