How could Xero improve the homepage?

I tried to hide some widgets and watched the "how to" video on the homepage which told me to click on "customise". Would help if I had a customise button on my homepage! Had to work out how to do it another way. If it's not broke, don't fix it.

Please allow us to change the font size, I work in a small office and now our financial information is being blasted to staff that don't need to see it.

Please let us keep the old "classic" look. This is a car crash.

Just been forced to the 'new' and pathetic home page. I now have to remove all widgets, have nothing on the homepage, then go find everything. As all widgets and their XXXL font are now a confidential issue. All our tradies can now see how much the company has or owes! Anyone got suggestions for another accounting package?

I feel the new Dashboard is too busy, overdone and unnecessary. let us decide if we would like maintain the old look (More modern and efficient than the new one). why can't we the user decide ?

Change the bank accounts page to use the old bank widgets with charts. Bank accounts page is pretty useless for companies with lots of accounts, like mine, 50+

You can get inspiration from HomeAssistant, where you can resize a widget to show more of less controls or just to make the widget informational only"
A widget can have a default action even when it's informational only, for example a bank account widget will lead to the reconciliation page.

This would allow displaying tiny widget for bank accounts for example instead of the unnecessarily large ones we have today.

It would have been better for the new layout to pick up the order of the boxes from the old version so users would not have to re arrange them.
As an accountant in public practice, we have 4 employees who access Xero files and several hundred Xero files. Multiply this and we have hundreds of home pages that need to be re arranged.
We obtain our efficiencies by knowing where to look, in a simple way, not by having to spend time looking for things.

I would suggest removing the white strip under the blue menu tabs along the top which has the company name and last logged in time in it. We dont need the company name listed as that is always showing in the top left corner in the blue menu. This would free up a little more screen space.

For a basic business, the old dashboard was perfect. The new dashboard is not only overcrowded with the number of widgets, but even the widgets that essentially do the same thing, are not easy to identify. Users should be allowed to select what they want to see and what they don't want to see. For users who want more indepth graphs etc, there should be a button that takes them to another dashboard where they can see analysis etc. For those who want task, it is a great idea, but it should be a button that takes them to that area. In my opinion, the old dashboard design worked i.e. layout, font, spacing etc provided great essentials. The new dashboard is not userfriendly, over crowded and a nightmare on a laptop. It is great you have expanded useability by offering quick analysis/depth etc via the new widgets, but in my opinion, one should 'get to them' via a button along the top, bottom or side taking the user to a different dashboard where the user can select/hide/resize the various new widgets.

Agreed. The main things we need to see easily and quickly in the dashboard are now hidden, messy or unclear.

Totally unnecessary update in my opinion.

Thanks to the inability of Xero to understand or respect their client's needs, my inbox is full of comments/ideas/suggestions/complaints and I'm having to unfollow all things related to the homepage.
When will Xero ever start to understand their client base?

I agree with the many comments below. The new homepage looks busy and outdated. I customized to remove most the widgets except those related to bank accounts and billing/invoicing, but it still feels like information overload. The old view was much more streamlined and easier on the eyes. It also looked more modern before.

Love this idea. I am not a new user but I am still feeling very overwhelmed by the new homepage.

Too busy, difficult to navigate, now have to scroll down to invoicing..

Far too much going on with the new home page. Very confusing for clients with multiple bank accounts. If I need analytics that can be on a separate page.

Homepage - Set up multiple views (Basic, Intermediate and Advanced)

Great Idea, Admin can maybe suggest what to indicate within each level?

Ex. "Advanced" - Profitability Ratios (Or any other - Liquidity Ratios, Solvency Ratios) at a glance perhaps? This will help with identifying any irregular issues much quicker and where to start investigating.

Side note - If this is included with an upgraded package or was mentioned before or discussed, apologies and please refer me.

I don't like the new homepage at all. Too complicated and difficult to use. Also the bills page now is extremely inconvenient to use. Why did the bills stop appearing in the "all" folder? Now to find the right bill I need to search in different folders.

Terrible, overly complicated, way too busy and difficult to use, those are the terms we hear regarding this new homepage. I do hope Xero wises up and starts listening to their clients at some point, but I doubt it.

We're moving clients (away) to other solutions as this may just be that proverbial last drop.

Can you make it a choice of dashboard either the old classic or this? It is way too busy and overwhelming to look at. It is overkill for most and looks like you can do a switch between for now so why not just keep that option to those who refer the better old dashboard. I don't want to switch back for a short time I want to switch back most times as it is a cleaner view.