How could Xero improve the homepage?

When I open Xero, I want to get on with business tasks in an efficient manner that is familiar.
I am totally over and utterly annoyed with wasting time "re-learning about how to use and navigate Xero" and couldn't care less about "beautifying" aka shuffling stuff about in your efforts keep an army of software developers employed... perhaps 'right size' your staffing levels and keep your fees down instead.

For years we have used xero
over the past nearly 2 years we have lost the ability to despatch directly from the warehouse using xero
We have tolerated popups coming up where we are writing
the currencys dont always match our presets, or change after being entered
now we have to refine our own front page which was logical and clear on all our devices already.
We have a choice of a word salad AI letter
Who are these changes for?
It is a distraction from actually running a small business

Please do not force the switch to the new layout. It is significantly worse and that has been communicated by many, so doing this would be a big own goal. If the homepage needs a refresh, do some user testing and improve it vs. this which is designed by a non-user and more difficult to use for customers.

Before Xero day for me was 1st April 2022 it used to cost my business £18.65 / UK sterling pounds for the whole 12 months / year for a 7 column analysis paper hard backed accounting / record book from
W H Smith in the Uk / England high street shop .

Now it costs my business £33.00 per month to record my transactions

Progress they call it ,

World governments creating jobs again so they can tax the workers in my eyes !

P.S.
Any chance Xero can fix their unsubscribe button please

as I have no control on the Xero email Product ideas auto email feed ref forced new Xero home page layout .

Xero, we really are paying you too much if you insist on wasting money on this "user experience" that nobody asked for or wants, and then ignore the unanimous response telling you to abandon it.

I agree with the comments that the new front page layout is too bulky
The old version was easy to navigate and not everything screaming for attention

The end users are telling you that this is a bad idea.

The old version homepage is much easier to use, especially when we have multiple bank accounts to reconcile. Can I choose to stay with the old version, not just for a while, but permanently?

Still ******* that drum? Read the room! Haven't seen a single positive comment - its a train crash - SCRAP IT! Now today I get an email about he app being updated as well - can only imaging what total mess that's going to end up. MYOB is looking better and better everyday!

I agree its really a waste of effort. Why not do multi warehouse or something usesful. Very frustrating when you have multiple bank accounts as the screen goes everywhere and cant lock in what you actually want.

Yes too complicate new Xero layout

Why change something that is working fine ?

Plus for the record the unsubscribe Xero buttons do not work either!

I placed one comment about three weeks ago about Xero new layout and now I am plagued with the feed from global commenters coming into my email in box ...... Madness !

If Xero cannot even get a unsubscribe button to work on their interface then we all have no hope !

But looks like they fixed their Xero double importing transactions issues from my business bank feed that was an eyeopener in 2022 when UK Gov forced me to use a software package to complete my VAT returns .

Personally I thought we had another UK
Post Office Fujitsu Horizon Software Issue starting !

Look it up on Wiki " British Post Office Scandal " ref software issues !

The fact that Xero is ignoring everyone on this matter only shows that they do not care about what the customer wants/needs are.

This reminds me of that lousy version of Quickbooks like 2003/2004 when they went off the simple layout to a really complex one which people hated and then started changing to MYOB. I reckon MYOB did the same thing actually too and lost a lot of users.... Keep it simple by default... Don't daunt people, keep it clean and then let them customise it.

The homepage is too cluttered, too big and messy. The old one was much better. Why change this? It does not improve the functionality`

Hey Xero - you can solve 99% of the complaints here in 1 day without going back to square 1. Do this:

1. When editing a dashboard, create a checkbox for "Narrow layout" - limit layout to 2 columns if selected (like you already do in your current 1000px breakpoint look.

This will make it look a lot more like the old dashboard and easier to use.

2. If the narrow column at the top is ticked, make the dashboard-template-beta-grid--wrapper max width 1020px like it was before - 900px you have at the moment is too narrow to display simple 4-column tables in one of the 2 visual columns (e.g. Chart of Accounts overflows horizontally)

3. Go through your card designs and compare old to new looks - be honest with yourself. The new bank account and Chart of Accounts cards look significantly worse and are less user-friendly than the old ones. Just change the layout to remove clutter and make them fit into the columns like they used to.

That's it. Save the "Narrow layout" flag and Bob's your Uncle. You can keep your new fancy layout if you want and users can go make it look exactly like the previous layout relatively easily.

Another point about recent changes:
Wouldn't it be really great if invoicing had the same simple, efficient and responsive feel and layout as Billing.

Spot on Pierce! This should be the default position that they take for any platform upgrades and should have been the way they approached invoicing before and now the homepage too.

While the homepage is fine for me (and, yes, I did help with some initial testing), it is obviously not for a lot of folks...which makes me think they are not gathering feedback from a wide enough section of their customer base.

The current system is working really well for our small org. If the dev's need to transition us for some coding related reason, than please create a matching skin in the new format that looks like the old format.

Agree with the other comments. If Xero is going to "allow" customization, then they should allow a feature to lock the widgets in place. If there was a lock feature I would lock each widget in place making it look EXACTLY like the original version. This isn't just a change the user needs to get used to and familiar with, it's a massive downgrade and a pain to use making navigation more cumbersome and harder to use.

The new homepage is a crime against user experience.
It is less helpful. It is less useful. It is more frustrating to use.

The layout is garbage - even the same Dashboard (e.g. Account Watchlist) looks much better in the Classic Dashboard without lines going off screen and custom sorting and ordering.

Every single person is telling Xero that the old dashboard is better. Are they still going to force switch everyone in April just because they don't want to make the developers feel bad?

I too am not liking the new layout...it's just too busy looking, and I find it hard to navigate. I'm all for change if it helps the user experience but this has missed the mark.