ACL Friday.
Austin shops know.
$7.25 is the floor in Texas, $2.13 tipped. Coordinex reads three months of your hourly Square sales and drafts next week so a SXSW Tuesday and a regular Tuesday don't get the same schedule.
Austin, TX
Texas tracks the federal floor of $7.25/hr. TX allows the federal $2.13 tipped cash wage if tips bring total to $7.25. Texas preempts city and county minimum-wage ordinances — Austin uses the state rate. FLSA weekly overtime applies after 40 hours.
Austin coffee demand splits across South Congress afternoon foot traffic, East Austin morning commute, and event-week spikes around SXSW and ACL. The same staffing for all three will overstaff one of them.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6:30 in East Austin. The patio's empty till 7, then the office crowd hits like a wall.
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 Austin 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.
We're not a SaaS company that read a coffee blog. One of us grew up inside a family business; the other is still apologizing to a Sunday-night shift list. A SXSW Tuesday and a regular-semester Tuesday on South Congress are not the same shift, and a flat schedule will pick the wrong one. 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. Texas base-pay-plus-tips assumptions 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 Austin teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Austin coffee shops run differently
- East Austin runs on the morning commute clock. Office traffic hits at 7:30; the patio is dead by 11 in summer; the night picks back up after 9 on weekends.
- South Congress fills the afternoon. Tourists and the food-truck crowd pull a 1-to-4 window no other block sees. The morning is light, the afternoon is the question.
- During SXSW and ACL weeks, the 6-to-9 window doubles for ten straight days. Either you staff it or the line walks to the next block.
- A 100-degree Tuesday afternoon doesn't need 4 baristas on the floor. It needs 1, with the door propped and the AC working. Coordinex shows the heat-day pattern your shop already proved last summer.
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.
02What about SXSW and ACL? Those aren't normal weeks.+
Coordinex sees the spike in your last-year Square history and treats those as separate patterns. The draft for SXSW week comes pre-stretched. Ten days of pre-dawn coverage instead of ten surprise mornings.
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.
04Honest 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.
05How 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.
06We've got someone clocking in for a friend. 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.
07$2.13 tipped wage seems low. What if tips don't cover it?+
If tips don't bring pay to $7.25, you owe the difference. Coordinex shows the base-pay-plus-tips assumption per shift before publish. We don't auto-flag shortfalls yet — keep your existing tip-tracking for that.
08What 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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