How could Xero improve the homepage?

To be honest, I love the new layout. In fact, I'd like to see the ability to make the widgets even smaller so I can get more onto a page, in particular the bank account tiles - I still think there is too much white space. We have lots of bank and card accounts and being able to see them all in one screen view is great, I can't tell you how many hours i've spent scrolling up and down finding accounts. Also, another feature I have seen on other systems is to have a toggle to show/hide certain balances. This could be a sub menu off the dashboard page where you can assign which tile balance will be hidden when you toggle the view/hide button. Also you should be able to set default position as show or hide, so whenever you go to dashboard, it is defaulted to hide mode (meaning all your tiles are there but balances are hidden on those tiles you have chosen to hide)

Hi - I would appreciate if the user could scale the tiles on the homepage. These tiles are quite large - having the option to scale them smaller there would be more information on the home screen.
My suggestion - scalable tiles please
thanks

Just been forced to the 'new' 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?

This (attached) is the only way I can have the new dashboard/home screen. By removing all widgets so staff cant see bank account of other sensitive figures just by walking past.

I have had to change my login link to land me on the bank accounts screen instead as this shows the classic look of the bank accounts that used to be on the dashboard.

Please either allow us to use the old layout or the flexibility to seriously reduce the size of the widgets. Sometimes I have people working behind me that can easily see a client's most confidential information when I am logged in (I have access to a number of of clients Xero accounts, and I work at their various offices) I would suggest in future before making a permanent switch, Xero actually gets feedback from their customers in advance and then make a final decision? The flexibility to switch back would be a great gesture of goodwill until we have the freedom to reduce the size of the widgets. I am very seriously concerned about confidentiality given the huge size of these new widgets.

I would rather have a list of outstanding invoices on the dashboard instead of a graph with the totals owed. (same layout as the recently paid invoices list which i have removed completely as its not necessary)

I feel that this is in an attempt to be similar to the other do-it-yourself accounting software..please don't let that happen. I recommend Xero all the time to people when they struggle with QBO - and I'm not a fan of their new layout - I don't want them to come to Xero and see essentially the same look.

I feel that this is in an attempt to be similar to the other do-it-yourself accounting software..please don't let that happen. I recommend Xero all the time to people when they struggle with QBO - and I'm not a fan of their new layout - I don't want them to come to Xero and see essentially the same look.

I completely agree - also, it would be great to have half sized widgets for invoices owed and bills to pay making them the same size as the bank account/VAT widgets by removing the bar chart - I like to see the totals owed/due but the bar charts for me are not necessary.

A "condensed" view would be handy too - the widgets have a lot of white space, for those of us checking things on the go with a smaller laptop screen that means a lot of scrolling up and down just to get some basic information.

Couldn't agree more- I have deleted some data from the homepage simply because I couldn't resize the widgets. The previous homepage was- and just my opinion- far easier to use and more visually appealing

I want to see all the boxes on the home page and some of them are too big. Can you add some resizing tools to shrink down the cash in and out, invoices owed, bills to pay boxes to the smaller size so I can see them all at a glance please?

Yes definitely, its showing too much confidential info on the main page. We have visitors frequently - staff & customers, so the enlarged widgets is not good.

The below pink boxes should not be so large and bold, either ability to shrink the text or boxes smaller be great. These would draw my attention from a short distance (grey boxes are just confidential)

Feedback below suggests I'm not the only one struggling with the clutter the new widgets create. They are too big and not easily customised meaning you have scoll down the page to see what you can already see in the classic version. The graphs are great visually but do they have to be that big with so much high value homepage space around them. The task widget is great but I have removed it just to clean the homepage up. With 4 bank accounts it doesnt leave a lot of space for the other important stuff. Someone suggested below being able to put all bank accounts into a folder on the homepage like on the iphone - you could still see the bank account name and the balance but much smaller.
IDK its just an idea

Ability to resize widgets (vertical size, at least)

Hi Kelly, just to follow-up on a comment I've seen made several times in your responses. Specifically this:

"[...] changes to the 'Cash in and out' and 'Chart of accounts' widgets so when customising your view you'll now have the options to 'Make larger' or 'Make smaller'."

This option doesn't really address the main feedback point - at least from my perspective. These options simply "stretch" the widget from 1 to 2 columns, and back again.

With the chart of accounts widget, they do not change the height, and consequently do not get rid of the scrollbar, and still prevent us from seeing the full list easily.

In respect to those widgets with graphs, they simply stretch the graph. If 6 months data is shown in 1 column view, then 6 months is still shown in 2 column view - it would be much better if the additional real estate was also used to increase the actual data shown (e.g. 6 months when the widget is 1 column width, 12 months when the widget is 2 columns wide).

I do appreciate the feedback and updates, but it really does sound in many cases that the product team are really missing the crux of our feedback points, and do not seem to be addressing the underlying usability problems.

If you are not going to give us the option of staying with the old layout which I much prefer, please let us make the widgets smaller. I extremely dislike the new layout, so big and in you face it's horrid. Definately not made by an everyday user.

I don't like this new Homepage concept. Space is filled completely and cluttered. I much prefer the old layout. If you're going to do anything, please enable the "Chart of Accounts" to be resized to what it was before (it's now too small - even on the largest size setting), and allow us to insert blank spaces so that we scan spread things out if we wish to do so.

Just out of interest, why are you tampering with the homepage layout? The old layout was fine and very functional. This new approach has been painful to have to deal with.

OK am I reading this right? What Kelly has written is that they have made two (2) only two of the many widgets the ability to resize?!

OMG..... What?!?!?!?

Not a fan of the new homepage. The widgets are too big with so much whitespace it makes you wonder why. Surely they can be resized to smaller tiles. They lost the graphs even though they are bigger!

Scrolling the homepage just to see what bank accounts need to be reconciled is missing the point of a dashboard. The 8 bank accounts we have dont even fit on one screen, making it at least a 3 page dashboard if you want any of the even bigger tiles

The simple fact it's called "Watchlist" would point to a widget that showed the accounts you want to see.. Not have to scroll up and down :)) Which ever group meeting thought that widget was any good has no idea how or why the old watchlist worked... I've tried sorting the Home Page into a usable format but the shape of the widgets and font sizes is frustrating.. + the lack of control in the widgets them selves and the data/format they shown has not improved so not really seeing a benefit other than it looks busier and less useful...