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Homepage - Simplify layout

The beta version of the new Xero layout. updated interface feels overly busy and cluttered, which makes navigation more difficult—particularly for clients who manage multiple bank accounts.

I believe users should have the choice to switch to the new layout when they’re ready, rather than being automatically transitioned.
Additionally, clients pay for Xero to streamline their financial management, not to have advertising pushed at them.

The current design detracts from the user experience and makes it harder to find and complete tasks efficiently.

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In development  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

Hi community, thank you for all the engagement and we can see the growing interest in improvements to help simplify your view of information on the new Homepage and navigate important information and insights with more ease.

Right now, our team have a few pieces of work underway intended to help with some of the pain points that have been raised here these include:

  • More options for the sizing of widgets so you can reduce these frames and better position this information on your screen
  • More customisation of information within a widget like being able to remove visuals
  • Improving the experience of moving widgets when editing the homepage to make it more obvious when dragging and dropping them to different positions on the page

We’ve also roadmapped further changes for later this year, once everyone is on the new experience. I’ll share more updates as we progress.

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  • Tim Sheehan commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why change it?
    It seems like change for the sake of it - an illusion of improvement that is in fact worse. The end user establishes fast efficient habits from familiarity and then you ***** it up.
    Your rubbish 'new invoicing' is a case in point. Which is still glitchy, makes unwanted changes or fails to implement stored preferences. Billing is unchanged and sadly reminds me how easy and reliable 'old invoicing' used to be..
    You are enshittifying Xero

    https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?si=unIF4kgPG7Nuw593

  • Cheyenne Mitchell commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stop changing the website. When it stops becoming convenient, I stop being a customer. If it isn't broke, don't fix it. We have been having to relearn your website every couple months since September of 2025.

  • Lisa Broom commented  ·   ·  Report

    Have you never heard the expression 'If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it' definitely applies in this instance.

    App Devs should always have an option for the 'classic' layout permanently available, no one wants a new layout designed by people who only develop the product and don't actually use the product. Everything in the new layout is too big & noisy.

  • Peter Burgess commented  ·   ·  Report

    100% agree with recent comments - Xero, please let us access the old home page. The new home page is hopeless! Xero - are you listening?

  • Annie Thorne commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ugh, I've just - in good faith - tried again.

    I thought that maybe after the influx of comments it might have been improved. But nope! Awful.

    Nothing stays where it's put. Even after removing a load of things I neither want or need, in the hopes of creating more space.

    Kelly, this new layout is horrendous! It screws the eyes and the brain. Please, either enable us to truly customise it to our own preferences - not just Xero's interpretation of what that should be, or allow us to keep the current version.

    This feels like 'new' invoicing, all over again (which, by the way, I still loathe).

  • Mick Barratt commented  ·   ·  Report

    Kelly Munro, You completely miss the point. WE DO NOT WANT TO GO TO THE NEW EXPERENCE! We like the old landing page and hate the new. So WHY are you continuing to force us to the new page?

  • Mick Barratt commented  ·   ·  Report

    Kelly Munro, You completely miss the point. WE DO NOT WANT TO GO TO THE NEW EXPERENCE! We like the old landing page and hate the new. So WHY are you continuing to force us to the new page?

  • Mick Barratt commented  ·   ·  Report

    Kelly Munro, You completely miss the point. WE DO NOT WANT TO GO TO THE NEW EXPERENCE! We like the old landing page and hate the new. So WHY are you continuing to force us to the new page?

  • Gillian Shippen commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hate the new home page - simple is always best. For those that like the changes, they should be able to keep it. For those that prefer simplicity, we should be able to keep the option to retain the old home page

  • Peter Burgess commented  ·   ·  Report

    Months of comments below and nothing has improved - very disappointing.

    This will continue to alienate those of us who used to think positively of Xero as our 'go-to' cloud accounting solution.

    The lack of interaction from Xero on this forum is an example of what not to do when it comes to customer service!

  • Fiona Harris commented  ·   ·  Report

    Go back to the old layout - the new one is truly horrendous - so much information on one page. It's not required

  • Donna Wallace commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please no more changes, I do not want to have to redo my homepage again. It has taken months to reassemble my widgets I do not want to have widgets disappear, have ones I don’t want appear, have features I use and appreciate vanish, have widgets mysteriously change position (as they do now).
    Having to readjust to a new set of interface criteria every few months is time consuming, frustrating and counter intuitive to the whole purpose of Xero.
    Like so many others, I don’t like the new interface but it looks like Xero is committed to it and it won’t change back to the one that has worked so well in the past. Please let us adjust to this, make it work as best as we can before forcing more unnecessary compulsory change.
    My suggestion would be to make all changes optional so those of us who would just like to get on with our work in Xero and not fuss around with cosmetics can do so and those who want the experience of something new and shiny can have fun with the new layout.
    Bring back the pre-Feb layout.

  • Rachel Hall commented  ·   ·  Report

    Come on Xero, listen to your users - the option to keep the old homepage is a must

  • Gabrielle Deschamps commented  ·   ·  Report

    I couldn't agree more. I previously had two columns for accounts, side by side, and it was much easier to see things. Now they're smaller, four across and I'm finding it really, really difficult to find what I want quickly.

    The urge to change things seems to be overtaking the need to make improvements. Changes which do not improve things are unwelcome. Improvements that we've been waiting for for a long time are yet to be implemented. I don't ever see any questions to users about what they'd like to see before changes are made. Not sure if this happens, but feel that it should, even if just for a select group (with broad uses).

  • Darren Rawlinson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Totally agree that the old layout is better, more intuitive and easier to see all the required information in one glance. The ability to stay with the old layout would be much preferred.

    I trialed MYOB and Xero and chose Xero due to the user interface being more intuitive (whilst noting that Xero is more expensive for a comparable product) - looks like you're trying to remove that advantage.

  • Roger Banks commented  ·   ·  Report

    Option to toggle the graphs on and off - a waste of space in my case

  • Rob Lackey commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please can we have the option to keep the old layout? It is much clearer and simpler. The new interface is far too busy, too big, and too intrusive.

    We spent a lot of time trialing Sage, Quickbooks, Xero, and Zoho, and felt that the Xero interface was the simplest, clearest, least confusing for us. Now you are forcing change on us, and we are not happy about this.

    To you, Xero is everything, to us it's just a tool. When a tool becomes problematic we replace it.

  • Bridget Chamberlain commented  ·   ·  Report

    New homepage has too much unnecessary information. Please allow us to switch and save the old page.

  • Weimers Enterprises (Pty) Ltd. commented  ·   ·  Report

    The new layout is absolutely terrible and a shock to work with especially when you are trying to get critical things done and are all of sudden forced to engage with it. I do not like it when Xero changes things indefinitely like this. Why can you not allow us to choose which layout we would like to stay with?

  • Rachel Hall commented  ·   ·  Report

    Give people the option to either stay with the current version or switch to the new one if they prefer. If not, people will walk. I personally hate the new layout. I find it hard to navigate and see what I want, and if I am forced into that being the only choice, I will take my custom elsewhere.

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