How could Xero improve the homepage?

There's quite a lot of feedback on this point now, to the point it's worth delaying any mandatory switch to the new homepage.

What needs to happen:

1. Delay any mandatory switch over to the new homepage while fixes and improvements are made.

2. Allow users to specify the number of columns: 2, 3 or 4 to their preference. Optionally have a "dynamic" option for people that do want to use this feature.

3. Fix the widget scrambling when moving between 2, 3 or 4 columns, and when customising/arranging widgets. For example, if we put all bank accounts in the left-most column, they should stay in the left-most column when arranging other widgets or switching from 3 to 4 column layout.

For the technical minded (or Xero developers): most of the layout fixes are fairly simple CSS adjustments. For those people that use browser-level add-ons and customisations, you can override the Xero site CSS to give you some better control (e.g. to fix the number of columns). Unfortunately, this isn't a solution we can give to our clients/users of Xero, and isn't really useful for people who don't know the technical implementation of this stuff. (If you are interested, you can check my other comments on a related post for the detail.)

Its so busy and impossible to customise. I 'read' the page in columns, but you've got some ridiculous left to right system going on. As fast as I'm moving widgets down the page another one pops into the gap meaning its all just a mess again. My client has over 30 bank accounts including Paypal etc and I need them all there. Let me leave gaps for a second or leave the tile where I put it!

Its so busy and impossible to customise. As fast as I'm moving widgets down the page another one pops into the gap meaning its all just a mess again. My client has tens of bank accounts and I need them all there. Let me leave gaps for a second!

The new homepage, I agree with comments below, looks very cluttered and if clients do their own Xero file very confusing, I much prefer banks lined up under each other easier to reconcile looks much neater and more organised.

How the current one shows is so much simpler to read and although I agree bills need attention it is important that providing invoicing to clients in a timely fashion is more important so creating a new invoice and being able to see what is in drafts, not approved etc can be actioned needs to be prominent at the top of the invoices owed to you widget. Please place New Invoice, drafts up the top and do not title it invoices owed to you just Invoicing Tab

I am finding this new home page ridiculously busy and hard to navigate. It was good to have the ability to put my clients bank accounts one side and other information the other side of the screen.
While it is nice to see some of the info you have added it is not necessary and totally do not want to see the ads bar along bottom!!!

You have made a great layout very challenging and frustrating!!

I like that this is scalable but the thing is that 4 columns wide is too much for me and this isn't supportive for my workflow. In addition to that I cant move the features where I want them, it automatically moves them along so I cant get them in the order I need, its worse than trying to sort and move apps on a phone, but more infuriating....

Whats worse, I cant make this work for me and to add to it you will force this on to us like new invoicing.

Terriby busy and overcomplicated, why re-invent the wheel? The Xero home page was already a favourite and one of the best layouts???

Yep KISS applies. Customers begrudge spending a small fortune per month on a subscription for something so overly complex looking and overwhelming. This sort of thing could be attractive to some accountants and people really into the data, but majority of our clients are small businesses who want simple accounting software that they can understand.

The layout as it is makes for easy reading and seeing what they want to see. They don't want to waste time removing widgets, adjusting to all these constant changes and having to constantly customise their view - most have no clue how either.

Maybe this sort of thing could be the pro version rather than the default. Some people want the cheap simple version and we have many customers wanting to move away from xero because of all this noise and cost.

Totally agree with Kelly Ross. The new dashboard looks somewhat overwhelming. The current version is clear and simple to work with. In fact, we do not need so many changes from the Xero development team. Xero is an accounting software—a tool to support our own business operations. We would appreciate being left with a stable interface for a while.

The new dashboard layout is disappointing. The previous layout is by far my preferred. Simple and easy to access all the information I need. The new layout appears to be a significant step backwards.
Also, usability when moving around and resizing widgets in poor. Just aligning all my bank accounts in a column on the far right is a feat in itself.. each time you drag a widget to the left, an existing widget on the left then pops out to the right. The layout is cluttered and blocky.. maybe delay the rollout until you can improve on what you had before?

Can't you leave things the way they are? Layout wise? Improvements are one thing, and should be added when available. But why do you have to move things around. Just add the new stuff in a new spot.

I really dislike the new homepage and to have no choice from the 26th January 2026 is very disappointing.

I have 31 clients and not one of them will be impressed with this change.
Most of them do not need all these bells and whistles.

A software that is plain, simple and user friendly has been the biggest selling point for Xero and that is why my clients like and use this software.

Please have the option to use both, new and old layouts.
It would be a really good addition to Xero to have both layouts available, as one layout will not suit all, but having both will.

I like the new navigation and homepage. I do think however, that makes no sense to display name of the selected entity twice. Once in the navigation bar (selector) and again below. This is highly valuable "screen real estate" and should be used differently.

Especially as this additional "bar" isn't part of the interface in the sales, purchases and accounting tabs.

I agree the new homepage is way to busy. And the red in the graphs is angry.

As a long term daily user changing the position of things is frustrating. Also have buttons that do the opposite job so close to each other like the files page is time consuming.

The homepage is way too busy !

I understand there are individuals within the Xero organisation who need to justify their position/salary and develop/update your product. However, please don't fix something that is not broken.

You are streets in front of MYOB - don't go backwards.

I agree with Kamahl Fox on this - far too noisy and not at all useful for a small business with low transactional volume. Also completely inappropriate for the many employees who are only using Xero for one or two specific roles. For example,someone who simply processes invoicing (those that haven't changed vocations since that changed) and bank reconciliations is going to be totally overwhelmed with the barrage of irrelevant boxes full of text and diagrams.

It seems that the concepts for these 'upgrades' are coming from people who don't actually use the software in a day-to-day functional manner. More likely the ideas come from accountants or financial planners who are only interested in the overview of historical transactions.

Feels like an attempt to justify the inflated price structure and make things look like we're getting more than we actually are.

The New homepage feels to busy and noisy, for clients who manage multiple bank accounts in multiple currency's need a more simplified View

I'm a dinosaur when it comes to IT, I just want to use the program I've learnt with as little change as possible.

I have also discovered at huge financial cost that updates mean that Xero can't be accessed on 'old" devices (in my case less than 5 years and perfectly fine to run the rest of our business from).

I'd rather you kept the cost down and stopped changing things so I can just get on with doing the accounts.

If you make it so that I can change the homepage I'll never do it, I don't have the time, energy or inclination to faff around with that. I just want to get the accounts done.

I feel like Xero is becoming aimed at tech savvy users who are happy to buy into consumerism and buy a new device every year just to look a different layout. Could there be a dinosaur version for old ***** like me who don't know what 'interface means', don't like things changing and having to relearn, don't care if they're not using the most up to date gadget and just want to run their business as simply, economically , environmentally kind an hassle free as possible please?

The new homepage idea is too busy, too much to look at and too chaotic. The clean dashboard currently available with open space and fewer colors and stuff is much nicer to look at. Going into menus to get additional data or reports is much more preferred and easier on the eyes and brain.