How could Xero improve the homepage?

awesome - but i cant see the widget

As well as not showing so much data as it used to (as per comment from Andrew G), it is not easy to see at a glance what each widget represents.

Having the graph would differentiate bank feeds from each other and from other types of data, making it much easier to see what you're looking at.

What's annoying is that the new homepage Bank Account widget uses roughly the same amount of space as the old widget, yet it displays significantly less information with the removal of the graph.

It's also broken. The other day, for me, it was showing the account as having the green tick and saying "reconciled" even though the balances were different and transactions still needed to fully reconciled. The old widget always would have shown that review/actions are needed.

I also preferred the style of the old pop-up menu which clearly listed options under headings - find, new, reconcile, feeds. When I was new to Xero this was much more "newbie friendly". The new pop-up menu just lists everything in a single list and has some of the options removed.

It's taken me w hile to work out what I was missing, as only some of my orgs have moved to the new layout.The dashboard is so white & difficult for me to see. THis morning I took the time to flick between orgs to work out why this new layout was annoying me. The balance movement graph is hte biggest difference. Beside giving some contrast on the page, the trend graph allows you to quickly see the movemen tin a bank account. At a glance you can see if the balance has been eroding or improving. Has there been a quick spike or drop? If so, you can jump in to have a look. Almost every time I"m with a cleint, that's the first thing I comment on in their file the trend in the bank that I can see immeidiatlye. Until I saw this "idea request" above, I had no idea that the graphs were still there, but only under the "bank accounts" menu. I rarely go to the menu item - because all you need for active bank accounts is on the dashboard. Please bring back the graphs on the dashboard widgets.

On the manage-bank-accounts page (not on the dashboard), the bank account balance graph used to show 180 days of data. This has now been shortened to 30? I used this frequently to see which day of each month had the lowest balance (for example) so I could quickly notice cash trends. Only showing 30 days now is of no help.

There appears to be no report that provides this info, nor are Xero Analytics of any use. Again - 30 days. I'm now thinking my only option is to manually export data to Excel which just generates more work.

Please restore this feature, and mayby ask customers if they use a feature before removing it. Who knows what you'll remove next.

Agreed. It's also a lot less obvious now whether a bank account is fully reconciled or not.

It's also impossible to keep all of our bank accounts together in the same view, as the columns move around depending on the viewport size.

No idea why this pointless update was made when there are so many fundamental features that have gone ignored for years.

Hi Kelly. I would also like to see the bank balance graph return to the home screen or even the banking page where it is now only 1 month. Options to see 3, 6 and 12 months would be great.

In other news. I really like the new Tasks feature and Recent Invoice Payments. These are great additions for me. Thanks. Phil.

Seconded this. The graph on the old bank account widget was much clearer and made it easier to quickly check when a credit card needed to be paid off for example. This is now not possible.

Appreciate this might not be needed for everyone, so an ability to turn it off and on in the widget settings might be useful.

I like the graph view of the bank accounts as its easier to see trends or anomalies for a quick snapshot of the business which is the main use of the dashboard. The old layout was much clearer in this regard.
The reporting dates for the widgets could also be adjustable to make it more customisable.

I agree, please keep this feature.

Bring back the account graphs - perhaps when clicking on account transactions from the homepage (and not displayed on the homescreen as previously). This was a useful feature to see if account(s) were overdrawn in a period and to review credit card(s).