Residency TrackerSignal
Know exactly where you stand, everywhere.
Day counting across every jurisdiction we cover, with warnings well before you cross a line.
Residency
Days counted from your check-ins and logged stays · Example
What you get.
Residency Tracker turns travel into a defensible day count, then watches the things that actually stop a trip. Log presence ranges per country, set Avoid or Establish goals per jurisdiction, and Heed handles timezone boundaries, Schengen rolling windows, passport and authorisation expiry, and what changed where you are going.
Dual-mode tracking. Avoid in one country while Establishing in another
Automatic alerts about four weeks before a threshold (155 days for a 183-day rule), plus, for goals to establish residency, 50% and 85% of any custom goal
Timezone-aware presence with nightly backfill, your count is always honest
Schengen 90/180 rolling window applied across the entire area, not country-by-country
Visa re-entry tracking counts continuous absence instead of days present, with email warnings at 30, 14, 7, and 1 days before your window closes
Passport and travel-authorisation countdowns. ESTA, ETIAS, UK ETA, visas and residence permits, with a warning when your passport has under six months left on arrival, which many countries require (check each destination's own rule), because a passport too close to expiry can mean being refused boarding
Upcoming trips read from the travel you have already logged, so you never enter the same journey twice
Before you travel, Heed flags what moved in that country recently, ranked by what affects getting in
Dates only. Heed never asks for passport or document numbers, and does not store them
How it works.
- 01
Log presence and documents
Add date ranges per country in seconds, or tell Auto mode where you are and it counts each day forward. Record the passport, visa or authorisation you hold and its expiry date.
- 02
Set goals per jurisdiction
Choose Avoid or Establish for each country, with custom day thresholds and tax-year boundaries.
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Heed counts and reconciles
Timezone-correct boundaries, Schengen rolling logic, and nightly backfill keep your count audit-ready.
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Get alerted in time
Emails fire about four weeks before a threshold, for example at 155 days for a 183-day rule, and, for goals to establish residency, at 50% and 85% of the goal. Documents count down as they approach expiry, and before a trip Heed flags what changed in that country.
Pairs well with.
Same income, two places
Scenario Planner
Once you've hit the day count to establish residency, model what your tax position actually looks like.
Your position
Sound, with two actions worth taking
- Review how your pension is taxedThis year
- Days in SpainOn track
Position Optimiser
Pair day-count tracking with structural analysis of your entities, holdings, and income types.
What changed in Portugal this month?
One change affects you: new rules for income earned abroad. Here is what it says, with the official source.
Ask Heed
Push any residency edge case, treaty tie-breakers, exit taxes, regime triggers, into a sourced brief.
Questions, answered.
Every presence range is stored with a timezone and resolved against the local midnight of the country you're in. Cross-day flights and red-eyes get counted correctly on both sides, not double-billed.
Yes. Heed applies the rolling 180-day window across the entire Schengen Area as a single bucket, the way border guards do, rather than counting Germany and France separately.
The warning comes about four weeks before the rule, so 155 days for the typical 183-day cliff. The 50% and 85% percentages apply to whatever custom goal to establish residency you set per country, so the same alerts work whether the threshold is 60, 90, 183, or anything else.
Yes, that is what visa re-entry tracking does. A permit usually lapses on one continuous absence rather than on an annual day count, so you can keep a country's day count low and still lose the permit by staying away too long. Switch it on per country, enter the maximum absence your own permit allows, and Heed counts from your last logged entry, shows the date you need to be back by, and emails you at 30, 14, 7, and 1 days remaining. Heed tracks the window you enter. It does not read your visa or connect to immigration authorities.
Log a date range in seconds, or tell Heed which country you are in and Auto mode counts each day forward until you pause it. You can also check in from your phone's location on the Residency page.
Yes. On the Advisor tier, every client in your workspace gets their own residency tracker that you manage from the same dashboard. Clients who have claimed their account receive the threshold warnings by email.
Something else? Ask.
Answered from this FAQ by our assistant. Questions about your own taxes belong in Ask Heed, inside Heed.