How could Xero improve the homepage?

I really dislike the new dashboard.

Why does Xero keep redesigning things that were already working instead of improving the features users have actually been asking for? There are long-standing requests that still haven’t been addressed, yet we keep getting forced UI redesigns.

The new widgets are far too dominant and “in your face”. The old dashboard was much more streamlined and easier to scan quickly.

The vertical layout made far more sense. Information flowed naturally from top to bottom. The new horizontal layout feels cluttered and harder to read. There is a reason newspapers were historically written in columns. It’s easier for the human eye to process information that way.

This redesign genuinely gives me stress and a headache when I open the dashboard. It feels visually overwhelming rather than clear and functional.

Accounting software should prioritise clarity, efficiency, and quick access to information. The previous dashboard achieved this far better than the new one.

It honestly feels like this was designed by someone who doesn’t actually use accounting software day to day.

At the very least, please give users the option to revert to the previous dashboard layout.

Absolutely terrible way to organise the tiles. Its insanely frustrating trying to organise it into the order you want, you place a tile where you want, then when you move a different tile to an unrelated spot the original one moves, and you have to continually fight the randomly moving for 5 minutes while you slowly get it closer to the actual layout you want. worst design ever. this is coming from a software developer. did anyone actually test this? Also this text entry box on this product ideas site is broken and the cursor half goes out of frame while typing when there is more lines of text than the box has room for. Can always rely on Xero to release half finished massively buggy features and UI.

The new layout caused me instant stress! No one needs it to be this messy.

Please provide the option to go back to the old layout. This new layout is very poor.. I've been using it for a month and it's simply woeful compared to the old dashboard. Of course Xero never listens, so I'm back shouting into the void.

If you are so confident your new page is so good. Why not go to the old style and give people the option of going to the new style by option

Definitely need more options to resize every widget as some are now too big and can't see the other widgets that are most important to see first for me without scrolling its visually uncomfortable now. The amount of white space is too much.
It would be helpful to customise information too, I don't need to see that many recently paid invoices to be able to set a date range or set number of invoices would make it better.
Add a widget for quotes on home page, would then be able to see quickly what I have sent

It feels like every time Xero introduces a new look, the usability becomes more frustrating rather than more intuitive. I often find myself wishing I could revert to the previous version. Despite seeing consistent feedback from users expressing similar concerns, the changes remain permanent, and there doesn’t appear to be an option to switch back.

For many of us, efficiency and familiarity are critical. When the interface changes frequently, it disrupts workflow, slows down daily tasks, and increases unnecessary cognitive load. What worked well before didn’t need reinvention.

If major design updates are necessary, I strongly encourage offering users the option to retain the classic interface, or at least ensuring that changes prioritize usability and workflow stability over visual refreshes.

Please consider the impact these frequent redesigns have on long-term users who rely on Xero every day.

Just go back to a list for businesses with more than one account! Not rocket science or I will have to find another system

Hello could we please have a widget for quotes to add to the home page - would save time

Thanks

Marie

I really dislike the new homepage layout as it's too cluttered. Changes should enhance the user experience but this is a retrograde step. This is change for change sake and the developer should adopt the KISS principle. Could we please have the option to keep the old homepage permanently.

Looks very busy!!

your unsubscribe doesn't work. and i do not want to blacklist your no reply email as i am interested in other ideas on this forum website moreover i do not want to untick all emails notification about every single idea i support.

i've clicked unsubscribed a bunch of times for this particular "idea"

everyone here is like "fix homepage" i agree as well but fix your "unsubscribe button" first

I would like to see Draft Invoices on the new homepage because it will remind me to send them out !!

I do NOT like this new layout. Its too busy, and it removed the line graph on the bank account widget which was extremely useful before. I also do NOT like the split screens on the bills page when you click on a bill. Its way too busy and adds nothing.

I dont personally want ANY widgets on my homepage. If someone in my office is looking over my shoulder, I dont want them to see any accounting data that might be on my screen. When you have all widgets hidden, the homepage looks incredibly dull.

Please add a widget for expense reporting - https://go.xero.com/Expenses/Default.aspx

Having just been flicked over to the "new improved" home page today for our practice file, I spent so long rearranging bank accounts, etc on my office computer, only to come home and will need to redo the whole thing again, because that screen fits 4 widgets across, not the 3 that the office screen has.

The more user-friendly OLD home page, stayed the same, no matter how wide the screen – 2 widgets across.

You say that you are putting in more options for resizing widgets. Nowhere in this resizing is the option to make a widget smaller. The old Chart of Accounts widget changed in size depending on how many accounts you were monitoring. The new one is twice the size of the bank account, with all this white space if you are only monitoring a couple of accounts, or you have to scroll (or make larger) if you have more that 8 or 9 accounts, because, yet again, Xero have decided that everything must be S O S P A C E D O U T
So frustrating and such a waste of space

There is not ONE, SINGLE, USEFUL change that has been made with this supposed "upgrade"

The only thing Xero has been achieved here is to make it easier for people walking past to read PRIVATE FINANCIAL information because it is so much larger on the screen

Xero, get your act together, do you job and fix these glaringly obvious issues that you have created. We should not have to be guinea pigs to identify issues that you have created before you address these deficiencies

You have butchered and degraded what was once a fully functioning home page

The new home page is utterly overwhelming and has zero structure. Frankly you are moving us (forcibly) from a useful, ordered, logical streamlined home page to a mess, where items are listed without reason and is overwhelming.
PLEASE don't force us to this!

Great way to start the week! This ‘improvement’ is a complete waste of everyone's time. Dashboard worked just fine before. Ditto the Archive/Filing fiasco.

Too busy and too in your face! Easier on the eye before!