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Hi community, thank you for all the engagement and we can see the growing interest in improvements to help simplify your view of information on the new Homepage and navigate important information and insights with more ease.
Right now, our team have a few pieces of work underway intended to help with some of the pain points that have been raised here these include:
- More options for the sizing of widgets so you can reduce these frames and better position this information on your screen
- More customisation of information within a widget like being able to remove visuals
- Improving the experience of moving widgets when editing the homepage to make it more obvious when dragging and dropping them to different positions on the page
We’ve also roadmapped further changes for later this year, once everyone is on the new experience. I’ll share more updates as we progress.
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Annie Thorne
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Ugh, I've just - in good faith - tried again.
I thought that maybe after the influx of comments it might have been improved. But nope! Awful.
Nothing stays where it's put. Even after removing a load of things I neither want or need, in the hopes of creating more space.
Kelly, this new layout is horrendous! It screws the eyes and the brain. Please, either enable us to truly customise it to our own preferences - not just Xero's interpretation of what that should be, or allow us to keep the current version.
This feels like 'new' invoicing, all over again (which, by the way, I still loathe).
An error occurred while saving the comment Annie Thorne
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Absolutely horrible to look at and use. Spent 5 minutes trying to arrange it how I want - very frustrating as things kept jumping around. Gave up in a rage and went back to the old layout which I shall continue to use .
Once again Xero's 'new and improved' is a shambles and anything but.Annie Thorne
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439 votes
Hi everyone, we thoroughly appreciate the feedback we've been receiving about the sizing of widgets and desire for more flexibility with these.
Our product teams are currently working on updates to allow resizing of more of the widgets on the Homepage.
There are considerations that weigh into what's possible' like what information sits within each widget.
The resizing will work in the same way as what has been provided with the Cash in and out, and Chart of accounts watch list widget.
I'll be sure to keep you updated here as new widget sizes are rolled out. Thanks
An error occurred while saving the comment Annie Thorne
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The chart of accounts widget .... has a scroll bar???
What the heck?
The whole point of the dashboard - surely - is to be able to see the things you want to see .... I should not have to either make larger, or scroll.
Give me strength (and the current view).Annie Thorne
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16 votesAnnie Thorne
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186 votes
Thanks for spending time to review the new homepage! It's great to hear what information is most valuable for you to get an overview of your organisation.
While we don't have immediate plans for developing this specific idea atm, we're keeping a close eye on all feedback being shared in this forum for our product teams to consider as they keep enhancing this experience.
I'll share if there are any updates.
Annie Thorne
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55 votes
Hi everyone, thanks again for sharing input on widget placement on the homepage.
As mentioned in our last update, once you Edit Homepage and Save the layout this will be saved for that screen size. If you change screens a prompt is also surfaced to explain that you may want to reset and save your layout.
While we don’t have plans to allow vertical stacking at this stage, we're improving the edit experience. This will make it easier to see how changing a widget's position shifts other items on your screen. I’ll let you know as soon as this is released.
Annie Thorne
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107 votes
Good to hear the value you'd see in having more visibility of GST from your homepage. Thanks for sharing with us here.
Our product teams are paying close attention to the feedback we're receiving through this forum, and I'll let you know if there are any updates surrounding this, here.
Annie Thorne
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52 votes
Hi everyone, it makes a lot of sense to want a cleaner way to organise dashboard widgets. When related items like bank accounts or invoice summaries are grouped together, it’s easier to find what you need without much scrolling..
For now, you can use the Edit dashboard button at the bottom of the page to reorder widgets—move your most-used ones to the top and hide the rest.
This idea is now Gaining Support, so we can see how many others would like more control over dashboard layout. We’d love to hear how you’d group your widgets—keep the votes and comments coming!
Annie Thorne
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73 votes
Thank you to everyone that's joined and shared feedback on our new homepage experience, here. Continuing to review and take this on board our team are working on some updates to the Invoices owed to you and Bills to pay widgets.
The intention is to offer more flexibility in the size of these widgets with the ability to reduce and remove the graph from showing.
I'll come back to share more as this progresses.
Annie Thorne
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64 votes
Appreciate hearing your feedback on this here, Tania. I can assure you our teams did a lot of testing with all aspects of the homepage prior to it's rollout however we totally understand there are different views of what information would be most valuable, where. This is exactly the type of thing we're keen to hear and understand the appetite of through product ideas.
Just to confirm for everyone coming across this idea - While slightly changed in terms of placement it's possible to view Drafts for Invoices and Bills in their related Invoices owed to you, or Bills to pay widgets.
This is now found beneath the graph where you can click the 'x' drafts text to go straight to the list of draft invoices (or bills) - see image
We don't have any immediate plans for changing the placement of the Drafts link within the Invoices owed to…
Annie Thorne
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72 votes
Thanks for the input and sharing your feedback here, everyone.
We know many of you asked for widget borders to help separate information. As a first step, we’ve subtly darkened the homepage background to increase contrast and make the widget boundaries clearer.
We’d love to know if this change has made the information easier for you to scan and consume. Please do let us know here 🙏🏻
Annie Thorne
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116 votes
Hi there!
Thanks for sharing such detailed feedback on the bank balance charts.
I’ve categorized this as Gaining Support. While we don't roll back to previous versions of the homepage, I’ve refined your idea to focus on making the balance charts configurable (1, 3, 6, or 12 months).
This covers your need for historical data while allowing for future flexibility.
Since our forum works best with one idea per post, I've focused on the chart visibility first. I’d recommend raising the "balance projection" as a separate suggestion so it can be voted on individually!
Annie Thorne
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162 votes
Hi everyone, we appreciate and want to thank everyone for feedback on the responsiveness of the new Homepage. This has been shared back with our product teams as they continue to develop this experience.
At this stage, there are no plans to fix the number of columns when using the Homepage. However, our team will continue to monitor usage on this closely.
One recent change we’ve introduced is that the Homepage layout can be saved at each screen size.
For example, if you set up and save the Homepage layout for your laptop and then move to a larger monitor you’ll see this adapt. However, if you ‘edit’ the Homepage and save the layout separately from your monitor Xero will remember the layout for each screen size. You should only need to do this once for each screen you use.
We’re looking at enhancing the edit layout experience soon to…
Annie Thorne
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390 votes
Hi everyone, we appreciate the attention this idea has been getting. It's really good to hear how we can continue to improve the Homepage for our differing customers needs. We understand not all the widgets maybe useful to every user, and the 'Customise' button will let you add or remove widgets to reduce what you see on the Homepage.
Taking on board feedback we're looking at the sizing of widgets and you'll find the 'Chart of Accounts' and 'Cash in and out' widgets are now smaller by default with an option to 'Make larger' - You can follow further updates for this on the idea here.
We have plans to dig deeper into possible 'view' options (like the different levels of views being asked here) in the new year and I'll share further updates here when this gets picked up. 🙂
Annie Thorne
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58 votes
Hi team, we appreciate all the feedback we've received from our customers about the Dashboard and how we could improve this for you.
As you may have seen or perhaps even have access to already - over the coming months we are releasing a new Xero Homepage that'll replace the existing Dashboard.
We've done lots of research and testing with our customers for the new homepage. You'll be able to customise to show which widgets you want, and it's built with updated technology so is much more responsive - adapting based on your device, screen size and zoom functions to show a maximum of 4 widgets side-by-side!
I'll update you again here when this is live to you all, and if you'd like to give it a go now - jump on into the demo co 😊
An error occurred while saving the comment Annie Thorne
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The new and 'improved' dashboard ... yet another calamity. It says I can customise it , but actually I can't. At least not to the way I want it - which is all my bank accounts down one side (most used at the the top, running down to least used). And then other stuff on the other side, again in most used to least used order. A bit like I have it now ....
Just spent 5 minutes trying to rearrange it and gave up, reverted to old view.
It's an eye sore. More scrolling. Less user friendly. Which is kinda like all the 'improvements' Xero have been making recently.Annie Thorne
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53 votes
Thanks for letting us know how this favourites feature matters to you.
We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit, so they can add their votes and comments about how this would benefit them, too!
Annie Thorne
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100 votes
Hi team, we appreciate your valuable feedback on how we could keep improving the new navigation experience for our customers.
We appreciate hearing how and why sub menus could be helpful in some sections of the navigation and this is something our product team are monitoring closely.
I will share if there are any plans or progress to share on this, here.
Annie Thorne
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100 votes
We appreciate you sharing feedback on the changes we could make to further enhance the new navigation for you, here!
Understanding that sub menus or more levelled drop downs could be helpful in some places, this is an idea our product team have a close eye on.
If there is any news I'll share an update with you all on this, here.
Annie Thorne
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4 votes
Thanks for reaching out with your idea about automatically recording leave days in employee's timesheet.
We've reviewed your idea and have moved it to gaining support. Now it's up to the community to get behind and support it.
Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.
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506 votes
Thanks for everyone's support in this idea. We understand the strong feelings expressed in your comments, where an invoice can be accidentally approved when still needing to go through a review or remain in a draft status.
As suggested by some users in this thread, if this has already occurred an option for now would be to add a note to the history of the invoice so other users are aware of the action and what needs to be done, or alternatively Void the invoice and copy to a new Draft invoice (consider if you need to change the invoice # before voiding the approved one, so you can use this on the new draft invoice).
While not a resolution for this idea, to avoid mistakenly approving an invoice an option could be to make use of the keyboard shortcuts that are now available in invoicing such as Save &…
Annie Thorne
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After various attempts to try and figure this out - I'm trying to act in good faith here, because I know I complain bitterly about every xero 'improvement' - and I've realised that the only way the new home page will work for me - by which I mean not drive me demented and have a constant migraine - is if I delete all the widgets. All of them. Literally all of them. And have a blank screen. Or maybe keep my most used couple of accounts. That's it. Anything else is a nightmare.
Well done Xero. You really have excelled yourself this time.
Meanwhile, there are legitimate requests for improvements/amendments - like making credit notes easier to handle, or putting back some of the things that were removed from invoicing (history still not correct, a year+ later) that go on and on for years, whilst we have to deal with this vanity project.