Our story

Built at Sea.
Designed for UK Seafarers.

Seafarers’ Earnings Deduction can be worth thousands of pounds a year — but only if your days add up. easySED was created to give seafarers absolute clarity over their SED status, wherever the rotation takes them.

Why we built easySED

Ask any seafarer how they track their SED days and you’ll hear the same story: a spreadsheet started with good intentions, a folder of boarding-pass photos somewhere on a phone, and a nagging worry every time leave comes round.

The rules themselves aren’t the hard part. Keeping them straight is. The 183-day rule and the half-day rule both depend on exactly where you were at midnight, across rotations that change at short notice, crew changes in foreign ports and flights that cross time zones. One miscounted trip home can quietly break a 365-day qualifying period — and you might not find out until it’s time to claim.

Most tools weren’t built for life on board. Spreadsheets break when formulas get overwritten. Cloud apps stall on patchy Wi-Fi in international waters. And none of them answer the one question that matters before you book a flight: “If I go home now, am I still safe?”

easySED exists to answer that question — clearly, offline, and from the trips you’ve actually logged.

Complex rotations
Swing changes, extended trips and short-notice crew changes make day counts hard to keep straight.
Broken spreadsheets
One overwritten formula and your 183-day total is wrong — without you knowing.
No signal at sea
Cloud tools stall when you’re thousands of miles from a mast.
easySED: clarity, on your phone
Log a trip, see where you stand — online or not.

What we believe

Three principles shape every part of easySED.

Offline & Private First

Your trip logs and evidence stay strictly on your device — never uploaded to our servers. easySED works in international waters with zero internet connection.

Proactive Protection

Built to warn you before you book a trip home that could put your 365-day qualifying period at risk — not after the damage is done.

Audit-Ready Exports

When it’s time to file, compile your day counts, trip log and evidence copies into one clean summary — ready to help you and your accountant complete HS205.

What easySED is & isn’t

We want you to know exactly what you’re getting — and where a professional still matters.

What it is
A digital record-keeping tool for your SED trips, day counts and evidence copies
A leave planning assistant that flags UK stays that could put your qualifying period at risk
A way to organise your records so they’re easy to review with your accountant
What it isn’t
A substitute for professional tax, legal or financial advice
A replacement for keeping your original evidence — boarding passes, discharge book entries and payslips, whether physical or digital
A guarantee that HMRC will accept your claim

Always review your claim with a qualified accountant. easySED’s results depend on the information you enter. Keep the originals of all your primary evidence, and have a tax professional check your figures and submit any official claim.

Know where you stand — wherever you are.

Download easySED and get every feature free for your first year. No card, no sign-up.

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Then £20/year, incl. VAT. See pricing