How could Xero improve the homepage?

The chart of accounts widget .... has a scroll bar???
What the heck?
The whole point of the dashboard - surely - is to be able to see the things you want to see .... I should not have to either make larger, or scroll.
Give me strength (and the current view).

Font, format, negative numbers with minus signs not brackets, lack of graphs on bank icons.......Etc etc etc......really poor experience.....I have had to turn them all off on all client's!

On the old home screen I could see all my watch accounts in one glance. Now I have a box twice the size with half the information and I need to scroll through it to see all the accounts - hardly handy and much easier to miss things. There seems to be way less flexibility around resizing everything and, as with most "improvements" in Xero, is focused way more on how pretty it looks, not how usable it is. I'll ask again - have your development team ever run a business?

The widgets are simply too big, the font size of the figures is too big. There is no degree of privacy as the numbers can be read by anybody passing by. The old format was ideal for readability and size.

This new dashboard is really, really disappointing. Still no feedback on anything.

I find the new homepage not that different in functionality to the old. It has potential with some fine tuning. Having the widgets sizing dynamic would allow better optimisation of the smaller screen. Currently two widgets are using as much screen as four with dynamic sizing. Creates unnecessary scrolling.
The task widget provide a nice prompt to optimise process flow to reduce task reworking due to data dependency from another task.

Some of the fields, like "Chart of Accounts Watchlist" should have an option to reduce the size as well as enlarge it. This was really effective in the old Homepage.

@Kelly Munro, the resize options (on chart of accounts and cashin/cash out) is a joke, to be brutally honest.

All it does is effectively double the width of the widget and give you no more information...it is literally the same level of info, just spaced out to twice the width. You are still forced to scroll, especially in the chart of accounts, to see all the info.

This is not an improvement or an expanding the level of customisation...to call it otherwise, is nothing short of insulting.

DO BETTER!

Does look more polished but the boxes are very large. Can they be made smaller and all the same size?

New Home Layout

As I work with 12 bank accounts, it would probably look better if the tiles were slightly smaller. The balances are also too visible. If we need to open Xero while someone is nearby, the bank balances can be clearly seen, which is not ideal.

I prefer having the tiles side by side as in the new layout rather than stacked vertically. That way I can see everything at a glance without having to scroll up and down. I removed the unnecessary widgets and left only the bank accounts.

One thing I am not liking in the new Xero version is the pop ups suggesting apps or functions. I would appreciate being able to log in and simply do my work without unnecessary interference. When I am processing something, I want to move through it as quickly as possible.

A better approach would be to create a tab called “New Xero Ideas” and let users browse it if they wish, where they can explore suggestions for apps or payment facilities in their own time.

Have a number of widget styles. Even two to start with; old and new. The old style was more compact and a lot of people seem to prefer this. So once you turn the old homepage off please allow us to use the old style of widget.

The resizing as per the chart of accounts is useless - I actually want to see all the accounts in my watch list (hence they're in a watch list!) not just see YTD on the ones I can see. Would appreciate full dynamic resizing or the ability to permanently keep the old view.

I wish you would leave the set up as it is and not keep changing the format. I was happy with the way it was.

Totally agree with this. I would like to be able to see two bank accounts and Debtor and Creditors WITHOUT the need to scroll.

This new homepage is rubbish, please fix it soon!!!!!

Hi, this is still so annoying, looks like MYOB is back come 1 Jul

Yes - so my list of "Invoices due" has blinking scroll bars because it's too narrow - long invoice ids and customer names - so I can't see the actual values, without scrolling the little grey bar to the right - annoying. Literally can't see what's due at a glance any more. Won't be adopting until they let me resize my widget!

The only option for re-sizing the accounts watchlist is to double the size. At double the size, there is so much white space it is unreadable; at the base size it's so spread out it's unusable (see screenshot comparing new to old - you can see that in the old version, because it's a LITTLE wider, the account names mostly fit on one line, and all the accounts I want to see are visible. In the new, the padding around each line takes up almost as much space as the line itself, so because the account names all take two lines, you can fit ONE account in the space the old uses for nearly THREE.)

Because the listed accounts are all in account number order, the ones I want to keep an eye on on a daily basis - wages payable, super payable, PAYG payable, suspense - are all hidden because they're at the bottom and I can't increase the length of the widget to accommodate the excess of white space and the text wrapping.

Even with an unwrapped text line, in the old view, it's about 10mm between the information on the line above and the information on the line below the line I'm actually looking at. In the new view, it's 18mm. There is Too Much White Space for the usability of the information presented - you don't put oodles of Pretty White Space in between lines of information in a table, because it becomes unreadable and unusable! Pretty does not trump fit for purpose!

Would be useful to be able to adjust the size of the Homepage Widgets (Especially for Privacy)

The resizing of the Cash In/Out and Chart of accounts is very limited (large and larger). If the watch list is one or two accounts, the widget is still taking up a large amount of screen real-estate with no information (screenshot to demonstrate). It really neesds to size to its content at least.