All the Xero Product Updates - to August 2025

16 Sept

Please find below our round-up of Xero Product Updates from the last few months.

Learn how to get paid faster, all you need to know about the refreshed Xero navigation & homepage, updates coming soon, and the best from the blogs.

Let’s dive straight in! 🙂

get paid faster using xero

Tap to Pay is now available for iPhone users, right inside the Xero Accounting app. By setting this up, you can use your iPhone to accept contactless payments instantly, wherever you do business. No extra hardware needed, and setup is straightforward.

https://www.xero.com/uk/accounting-software/accept-payments/tap-to-pay/

Pay By Bank (integrated with Stripe) is a fast way to collect one-off payments from your customers’ bank accounts. Your customers will authorise payments through their online banking / app, and payment confirmations are immediate within your Stripe account.

https://blog.xero.com/uk/product-updates/pay-by-bank-more-payment-options/

updates to the xero dashboard

The refreshed navigation on the Xero dashboard will be launching during September, followed by a new homepage experience later in the year.

Check out a summary of the key updates here:

https://www.xero.com/uk/campaign/new-homepage-navigation/

The main features & benefits are as follows:

Get to your next task faster with the new navigation

Designed to help you flow from one task to the next with simpler labels and logical groupings.

Insights at a glance on the new homepage (previously dashboard).

A clear view of business performance, new widgets for daily tasks (such as reconcile transactions, bills awaiting approval), recently paid invoices, and profit & loss, alongside enhanced versions of your current favourites.