How could Xero improve the homepage?

My sales person just advised that they can see the whole new homepage as a standard user, they can now see all our bank accounts & balances.
That will also mean that our purchasing person can see that & all the income & expenses which is absolutely not relevant to their role.
There needs to far more permission on/off toggle options for each user.
The new page should be for higher management ONLY.

Xero as an organisation really still doesn't understand their customer base! More changes that are poorly planned, created by non-users of the product it seems. Ugly, cluttered, and hinders work flow rather than improving it. Just look at all the comments - and we all know that many don't bother to complain, so the real number of unhappy customers is rather significant.

Has Xero really learnt nothing from the 'new invoicing' fiasco! Yet another pile of poorly designed layout changes forced upon loyal customers. As others have well summarised, the layout may look superficially 'pretty', but is cluttered, bloated, inconvenient, and adds nothing meaningful. It is clear that Xero no longer has any clue about real world data or user workflows.
Comments from Kelly to the effect of now 'having plans for exploring the possibility' of making changes that are necessary to make the update workable, are beyond a joke!! These changes are not something that have been forced upon Xero, they are of your own making, and if the product team can't see how poorly considered they are, then there is no hope.
After over 17 years as a loyal Xero customer and advocate, year-end can't come soon enough. We're in the process of moving to Odoo, and encourage others to consider doing similar.

this new homepage is a cluttered mess

such a jumble of info all together no definition between accounts

not for us

Unfortunately, I find the new homepage unusable. Some people may like the colour change, but I cannot look at the new colours for long. The Red especially. I assume Xero did not consider the correct colours to use, as red is one of the colours that can cause the most visual fatigue. So, with the widgets being crowded, incorrect colours, and everything being so large and garish, it has now created a privacy/confidentiality problem, which is a serious concern, as everyone in the office can easily see the figures on my screen. My workaround is that I have had to remove all widgets from my homepage except Tasks, as Tasks shows nothing important, and then I just click through menus until I find what I need, which defeats the purpose of having a homepage at all! Not practical, but saves the eye strain and headaches! The previous homepage was far easier on the eyes, more discreet, and more practical for daily use.

Hello,
This new layout looks great but also confusing, for now i can say i prefer the old one. But an improvement will be much better. I have a problem when i use the ctrl F to find something in the homepage, I need to use the exact very first word so the search engine will run, can't use the second or part of the word i need to find.
for example.. i have a bank account name "abc 123".
i can't type "123" in the search box, it'll show me no result. but when i type "abc", it works.

I wish this can be fixed.

There is too much white space. Dashboard needs to be a lot tighter, preferable one page.

I can't see how this is an improvement. I have 19 bank accounts to keep track of and could organise them more easily before. There is too much white space on each account 'tab' and not enough visual difference between them (or ways of adding differences) so it's hard to scan them. Please review this before making it mandatory.

There's quite a lot of feedback on this point now, to the point it's worth delaying any mandatory switch to the new homepage.

What needs to happen:

1. Delay any mandatory switch over to the new homepage while fixes and improvements are made.

2. Allow users to specify the number of columns: 2, 3 or 4 to their preference. Optionally have a "dynamic" option for people that do want to use this feature.

3. Fix the widget scrambling when moving between 2, 3 or 4 columns, and when customising/arranging widgets. For example, if we put all bank accounts in the left-most column, they should stay in the left-most column when arranging other widgets or switching from 3 to 4 column layout.

For the technical minded (or Xero developers): most of the layout fixes are fairly simple CSS adjustments. For those people that use browser-level add-ons and customisations, you can override the Xero site CSS to give you some better control (e.g. to fix the number of columns). Unfortunately, this isn't a solution we can give to our clients/users of Xero, and isn't really useful for people who don't know the technical implementation of this stuff. (If you are interested, you can check my other comments on a related post for the detail.)

Its so busy and impossible to customise. I 'read' the page in columns, but you've got some ridiculous left to right system going on. As fast as I'm moving widgets down the page another one pops into the gap meaning its all just a mess again. My client has over 30 bank accounts including Paypal etc and I need them all there. Let me leave gaps for a second or leave the tile where I put it!

The new homepage, I agree with comments below, looks very cluttered and if clients do their own Xero file very confusing, I much prefer banks lined up under each other easier to reconcile looks much neater and more organised.

How the current one shows is so much simpler to read and although I agree bills need attention it is important that providing invoicing to clients in a timely fashion is more important so creating a new invoice and being able to see what is in drafts, not approved etc can be actioned needs to be prominent at the top of the invoices owed to you widget. Please place New Invoice, drafts up the top and do not title it invoices owed to you just Invoicing Tab

I am finding this new home page ridiculously busy and hard to navigate. It was good to have the ability to put my clients bank accounts one side and other information the other side of the screen.
While it is nice to see some of the info you have added it is not necessary and totally do not want to see the ads bar along bottom!!!

You have made a great layout very challenging and frustrating!!

I like that this is scalable but the thing is that 4 columns wide is too much for me and this isn't supportive for my workflow. In addition to that I cant move the features where I want them, it automatically moves them along so I cant get them in the order I need, its worse than trying to sort and move apps on a phone, but more infuriating....

Whats worse, I cant make this work for me and to add to it you will force this on to us like new invoicing.

Terriby busy and overcomplicated, why re-invent the wheel? The Xero home page was already a favourite and one of the best layouts???

Yep KISS applies. Customers begrudge spending a small fortune per month on a subscription for something so overly complex looking and overwhelming. This sort of thing could be attractive to some accountants and people really into the data, but majority of our clients are small businesses who want simple accounting software that they can understand.

The layout as it is makes for easy reading and seeing what they want to see. They don't want to waste time removing widgets, adjusting to all these constant changes and having to constantly customise their view - most have no clue how either.

Maybe this sort of thing could be the pro version rather than the default. Some people want the cheap simple version and we have many customers wanting to move away from xero because of all this noise and cost.

Totally agree with Kelly Ross. The new dashboard looks somewhat overwhelming. The current version is clear and simple to work with. In fact, we do not need so many changes from the Xero development team. Xero is an accounting software—a tool to support our own business operations. We would appreciate being left with a stable interface for a while.

The new dashboard layout is disappointing. The previous layout is by far my preferred. Simple and easy to access all the information I need. The new layout appears to be a significant step backwards.
Also, usability when moving around and resizing widgets in poor. Just aligning all my bank accounts in a column on the far right is a feat in itself.. each time you drag a widget to the left, an existing widget on the left then pops out to the right. The layout is cluttered and blocky.. maybe delay the rollout until you can improve on what you had before?

Can't you leave things the way they are? Layout wise? Improvements are one thing, and should be added when available. But why do you have to move things around. Just add the new stuff in a new spot.

I really dislike the new homepage and to have no choice from the 26th January 2026 is very disappointing.

I have 31 clients and not one of them will be impressed with this change.
Most of them do not need all these bells and whistles.

A software that is plain, simple and user friendly has been the biggest selling point for Xero and that is why my clients like and use this software.

Please have the option to use both, new and old layouts.
It would be a really good addition to Xero to have both layouts available, as one layout will not suit all, but having both will.