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Contacts - Money in/out graph from the contact overview Why removed?

Why has this been removed? I genuinely can't understand any good reason for doing so from a Xero user perspective. Please reinstate as soon as possible! It is such a helpful, immediate visual tool to be able to qet a quick insight into a client, or suppliers, payment history and patterns of behaviour. It highlights immediately where there may be gaps and is something I (and others in our business) make use of on a daily basis. Additionally, as someone who benefits from visual learning, to completely take this option away is hugely disappointing. I'm now faced with a page of 'words and numbers' which takes time to process and makes the page feel far more clunky and over whelming when it absolutely doesn't need to be and wasn't previously. Personally I think this is a huge mistake, please consider a review and return the graph!

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Victoria Dorman shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
delivered  ·  AdminHannah G (Admin, Xero) responded  · 

Hi all, if you hadn’t already spotted, the Money in/out graph is back 🎉

It shows the cash in and out over last 12 months, and you can still mouse over the graph to show the actual amounts. The bars now have a minimum size for visibility! In the old graph depending on the difference in cash amounts the smaller bar would sometimes not be visible.

With this updated version you can switch to a table view that was added for our accessibility users/ those who prefer seeing a table rather than a graph. You can also choose to show or hide the graph entirely, just use the overflow menu above - see screenshot for illustration.

Thanks again for all your feedback on this change, we’re glad to be able to bring back an improved version!

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  • Sally Stubbs commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any news on delivering this, we desperately need it back! STILL STRUGGLING!

  • Sally Stubbs commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have posted about this graph too, several months on I still have to run an iris report to find client payment trends.

  • Charlotte Parkinson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Definitely, this was so useful, please bring it back.
    It doesn't look great when a useful feature is taken away with (as far as I know) no consultation. How do Xero consult their users and take their needs into account before redesigning the product?

  • Dimity Raftos commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree. I also liked the option to view the bill attached directly from the summary screen instead of having to click into it. Now I keep accidentally duplicating bills.

  • Lily Zhou commented  ·   ·  Report

    Thanks Hannah, would be much appreciated if Xero could bring the cash in/out graph back!

  • John Best commented  ·   ·  Report

    You really must bring this back, it makes it immediately obvious when a client has missed a monthly payment and aids us in being able to chase this up. It was not broken, did not need to be messed with. Please reinstate asap.
    many thanks

  • Chris Tyson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please bring it back it was a very helpful tool to very quickly find out how much a customer spent each month for the last 12 months, now you want me to run a report to get what took 5 seconds to find out... please bring it back

  • Scott Couldrey commented  ·   ·  Report

    I used this every day, it was such an easy way to view spend and see how much we were spending with a given supplier on the fly in meetings and for sales reporting! Please add it back in ASAP.

  • Struan Clark commented  ·   ·  Report

    Really want the cash graph back! We genuinely can't understand why you would remove it!!! it's a very useful tool

  • Michael Gayst commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Victoria - I agree completely! this is super helpful for me in quickly eyeballing whether a payment to a supplier is consistent with their history

  • Shan Moldrich commented  ·   ·  Report

    Xero, what was your reason / justification for removing the money in / out graph?

    Are our continuously increasing subscription fees paying for the removal of features?

    I've yet to see anyone comment in favour of, or explained the benefit of having the graph removed ...

  • Hannelie Bauer (Treasurer) commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, I agree the graph was very helpful and now I feel lost and not sure how to go about searching when my customers last made payments. Especially when they are in arrears as we run a system where invoices are issued quarterly. Why remove something that works and brings value to your system.

  • Sarah Connelly commented  ·   ·  Report

    This was really helpful for us so I am also disapointed it has been removed. Don't understand why it would be. Tried to contact support but they just answered by saying it has all changed ( yes I know that!). and a load of irrelevant links.

  • Libby Berg commented  ·   ·  Report

    Totally agree. It was a quick visual aid that you could see a summary of ins/outs - excellent for us and for users who might not having to look at numbers so much. It broke up the page and gave helpful informaiton.
    Can't understand why it was removed.

    Please can it return asap?

  • Natalie Radley commented  ·   ·  Report

    I found this feature very useful. It's hard to find a quick way of viewing customer payment history. I would like to see this graph put back in. Thanks

  • David Blundell commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree. It's removal has hindered us. I realise it is may not be useful for some businesses, but for those, like us, where the invoice is a regular amount, you could tell at a glance how reliably the contact is paying. If the majority don't use it, perhaps this should be a hidden item, but easily accessible for those that want it.

  • Mark van der Walt commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am very disappointed that you have removed the money in/out graph from contacts.