How could Xero improve the homepage?

My idea is: not to force new UI/functionality on users before it is ready.

Many users will be willing to assist in trying things and providing feedback, but Xero have lost sight of the fact that an application like this is an essential business tool - we have to achieve important things on it. Don't set arbitrary deadlines for making updates mandatory for all users, make sure it is functional and useful to.

Don't mind being free guinea pigs and testers, but not when there's work to be done. Xero has really burnt through core user capital here.

Xero, you are NOT listening to your customers and now the option to go back to the old, simple, easy to use homepage is gone. Abandon this disaster already!

The new home page is not an improvement. Xero please give your paying customers what they paid for which is the very good home page we had earlier this week! Please reinstate the toggle button so that we can get on with our work!
I keep being told we are listening to our customers and in the same sentence that we cannot have what we are asking for which is the workable homepage!
The homepage is causing more work as all users are forced to find things that have been moved around. We may be able to change it but the point is it was working well before!!

I hate the new homepage. I really, really, really hate it. Please can you switch it back or at the very least, offer the option to switch it back. It is far to easy to miss things with this new 'blended' look. Everything was so obvious before. Now it looks like it is all merging into one. I really wish you hadn't bothered. Feels like a huge step backwards. I would design the layout exactly the same as I had before if I could!

You are going to be looking at losing a customer (and I Do not Believe that I would be the Only one). This New Home Page is absolute Garbage. None of the Widgets are. a Resizable, b Customable and Still no Option to Reduce the Number of Columns. Not a Case of Relearning the Home Page. but Chasing the Object you are looking For. For the Amount of Time Wasted Using your product (Great as it WAS) Your Changes are making this a VISTA Version of Xero - Nobody wants it and I certainly will not be hanging about to to use a Product for the Company that doesn't listen to it Users. Even Microsoft listened after Vista Came out. Why Can't Xero. You Haven't been bought out by Broadcom by any chance. They Buy a Product Make Useless and charge heaps for Rubbish with NO SUPPORT.

There appears to be significant adverse feedback on the new homepage with things like the accounts widget still not fixed. Xero appears to be fixed on pushing out the new homepage regardless of their customer experience or the impact it will have on business users (Sonos new app update anyone?).

How about the old page is maintained until some of the underlying issues have been fixed? Flagged as a separate idea because all of the other comments appear to being ignored on the existing "Home page is too cluttered" threads.

It used to work when we joined Xero - but it has become more "pretty" less functional over the years -

Why do you keep changing it..? It was working very well. Its worse now than it was before.. just leave it alone. Even change it back.

Totally agree. I hate the new homepage and do not want to use it. It should be a choice. But really, why waste time and money, when the old one was fine, nothing has been gained that I can see; just a busy/messy page instead of the nice clean one we already have.

It would be best if the layout stayed the same as before. This isn't clear what is happening. It was great as it was. Don't change it.

I suggest Xero goes back to the 'old' home page which works WELL and we are familiar with. If something is working please leave it alone!

I'd be interested to know 'how many subscribers asked you to muck around with the homepage?' I'll bet it's a small number and I know I'm not one of them.

Can you have a vote up or vote down or vote abstain page, like FB or YT.

So annoying to have it change. I liked it as it was!

Any time things change it takes time to familiarise yourself with the new layout. It's just a waste of time. I just want to reconcile my accounts FFS and now I have to look around to see where everything has moved to. I'm already short on time and this is just a frustrating waste of time.

The new home page layout looks chaotic, messy and I am not happy that I am being forced to switch to it.

Maybe leave the old one available for those of us who like it and wish to continue using it.

"On April 13 2026, you'll be permanently switched to the new homepage, featuring a new look and improved functionality" - Xero

It is pretty clear from the comments and points raised by hundreds of users / paying customers that the new home page is not really an improvement. Why force it on us? The Existing layout works great. Simple and streamlined. Give us the option to either remain on the existing layout or move to the new layout if you so choose.

Xero should help simplify our day to day operations, not create unnecessary clutter.

Its horrible, I can't see of find anything. Please give the option to stay with the old screen

Have to agree with the last statement - I've already stopped recommending Xero, as have two accountant firms (with multiple clients) that I know.

NB: This decision isn't specifically about whether we like/dislike a given change. In discussions with others, the common element is that it's the general approach and the indifferent response to feedback that prevents us feeling we can recommend Xero - as that recommendation reflects on us. Most of the issues people are noting can easily be fixed and customisation options could easily be introduced to enable the product to meet everyone's requirements - but overall that's not the direction Xero are going in (they have stated this in another feedback post I made), and I really do feel good product management is severely lacking.

Precisely what I came here to say. It wasn't broken, so why fix it? I was happy with my old home page, it worked for me. I've just spent 5 minutes wrestling with some algorithm to try to get the various "widgets" where I want them - every time I tried to move one, it would move others that I didn't want to move. The UI for modifying the home page is NOT ready for release.

Your system response is stupid too. No I don't want to see what's coming soon if it's more of the bad changes that have occurred recently with the menus and homepage.

The new homepage that just showed up for me today 3.1.26 is horrible. It's so busy and hard to look at. The old bold widgets with just 2 columns and more "white space" was so much easier on the eyes. First you mess up your menus and now the home page. Change for the sake of change doesn't make a product better. I used to like you better than Intuit and Quickbooks, I'm wondering how long before I don't, I'm guessing sometime around the middle of April when I can no longer use the OLD home page.