A game-day Saturday and a dead-week Tuesday
don't need the same crew.
Iowa's floor is $7.25. Coordinex reads three months of your hourly Square sales and drafts next week, so a Cyclones home morning and a quiet summer Wednesday stop sharing one schedule.
Ames, IA
Iowa's minimum wage is $7.25/hr. Tipped employees who customarily receive more than $30 per month in tips may be paid a $4.35/hr minimum cash wage when tips make up the difference to the full minimum wage; the tip credit is capped at $2.90. Iowa also allows a $6.35/hr initial employment wage for the first 90 calendar days for eligible new hires. Overtime is generally governed by the federal FLSA at 1.5x after 40 hours in a workweek. No statewide fair-workweek or predictive-scheduling rule is modeled here.
Ames coffee demand splits across Downtown commute mornings, Iowa State class-day afternoons, and Campustown late nights. Cyclones home-game Saturdays and August move-in week run hot; summer and winter break run cold.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6:30 a.m. in Ames and the Downtown regulars are already lined up for the morning rush, but Campustown across the tracks won't wake up for hours. Same town, two clocks. One opener can't hold both.
Most apps ask you to type in how busy you'll be. Nobody types it in. So the schedule is wrong before it ships.
Three months of your Ames mornings already sit in your Square account. Real numbers. Hour by hour. The thing nobody flips through during a Sunday rebuild.
You still run the shop. We're not pretending the app knows your team better than you do. You already know which closer can hold Campustown alone after 9.
One of us grew up inside a small family business that wrote next week's schedule on Sunday with a pen and a guess. Coordinex is the version we wished existed back then, ported to coffee. A game-day Saturday on Lincoln Way and a dead-week Tuesday do not staff the same shift, and a flat schedule picks the wrong one every time. We don't claim to run your shop. We just stop you from guessing the busy hours — using the Square history your block already proved.
Connect Square — 4 minutes
We connect to your Square account and read three months of hourly sales. We don't change a thing in your Square account. Sign in, give read-only permission, done.
Next week, drafted in 12 minutes
Reads three months of your hourly Square sales and drafts next week from that. You spend 12 minutes editing instead of 90 building from scratch. Iowa's $7.25 and $4.35 wage floors stay visible before publish.
Every Sunday, your demand curve sharpens
Last week's actual sales feed back in. A demand model fitted to your shop adjusts. Next week's draft starts from a smaller error than the last one.
For the people who actually pour the coffee.
How Ames coffee shops run differently
- The school year is your real calendar, not the month. When Iowa State is in session the 10-to-2 stretch fills with students; come finals and summer it empties. Schedule off a "fall average" and you over-staff the slow weeks and short the busy ones. Coordinex reads which weeks your block actually felt it.
- Downtown and Campustown peak at opposite ends of the day. Downtown is a commuter morning — open early, quiet by noon. Campustown is a late crowd that drifts in past 9. Pull both off one curve and somebody stands around half their shift.
- Research Park adds a weekday office morning all its own. A shop near the office corridor gets a steady 8 a.m. push Monday through Friday and almost nothing on weekends. That's a different week than a campus shop, and your Square data already shows the gap.
- Cyclones home Saturdays at Jack Trice rewrite the morning. Game-day mornings run hotter and longer than any normal weekday, and August move-in week is its own short spike. Have the extra opener on staff before the tailgate crowd hits — not texting the group chat to cover Saturday once the line's already out the door. Ames shops know that rush is coming; now the schedule does too.
Frequently asked
01What does Coordinex actually read from Square?+
Hourly sales, ticket counts, and item sales for the last three months. Read-only. We don't write back, we don't change menus, we don't touch payments.
02Does it know Iowa State's calendar matters more than the month?+
It learns it from your own numbers. After a cycle or two Coordinex can tell a class week from a break week and a Cyclones home Saturday from a regular one, because your Square history already separated them. You can flag move-in week or a game weekend by hand the first time, before the model has seen it.
03My baristas keep asking for advances. Does Coordinex help?+
Earned wage access is built in. They see what they've already earned mid-pay-period and can pull it without going to a payday lender. We don't take a cut from them. You don't get the awkward Monday text.
04Someone clocked in for a friend who called out. Can the app catch it?+
Yes. Geofenced clock-in checks the phone is actually at the shop. Buddy-punch detection flags the patterns where one phone clocks in two people. We don't want you to be the cop. We want the clock to be honest.
05Honest question — does it work on Android?+
Not yet. Coordinex is iPhone-only right now. We'd rather ship one platform that's actually good than two that are half-finished. Android is on the list. We won't put a date on it until it's real.
06How much?+
Free up to 5 teammates — no card. $9.99/mo Starter has a 7-day Apple trial. Full pricing at coordinex.app/pricing. If Coordinex isn't useful in week one, delete it.
07What happens to my data if I cancel?+
You own it on the way out. Export every schedule, timesheet, and wage record before you delete the app — nothing is held hostage, and we don't lock your history behind a final invoice. Month-to-month, cancel anytime.
Try Coordinex on Tuesday. Connect Square in 4 minutes. Schedule by 9.
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