$16.82 in Boulder.
Every shift, before publish.
Coordinex runs the people side of the shop from one iPhone — scheduling, GPS clock-in, early pay your baristas can reach mid-week, team messaging, and labor reports that read like plain English. Boulder's floor sits $1.66 above Colorado's, so it reads three months of your hourly Square sales and drafts next week — and you don't pay that rate for an hour you didn't need.
Boulder, CO
Boulder's 2026 minimum wage is $16.82/hr — set by city ordinance 8664, $1.66 above the Colorado state floor of $15.16. CO allows a tip credit of up to $3.02; effective tipped cash wage in Boulder is $13.80. CO weekly overtime applies after 40 hours; daily overtime applies after 12 in any shift.
Boulder coffee demand splits across Pearl Street tourist mornings, CU Boulder campus afternoons, and Flatirons-trail weekend recreation traffic. The same staffing for all three will overstaff one of them.
What changes Tuesday
$16.82. That's the cost of an overstaffed Boulder hour. Three a week is about $50 in labor for nobody — $2,600 a year.
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 Boulder 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.
The draft is just the doorway. Inside, the opener runs a tap-to-finish task list instead of a clipboard, clocks in only when the phone is actually at the bar, and pings the team in one thread when the Pearl Street line jumps. Your baristas can pull pay they've already earned before payday, and the labor numbers you used to reconstruct by hand show up as a weekly Pulse read. One app, the whole shift — not a scheduler bolted onto five other tools.
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 Pearl Street tourist Saturday and a CU midterm Tuesday do not share a curve, and a $16.82 floor makes the wrong call expensive. 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. Boulder's $16.82 wage assumption stays 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. The same engine powers Pulse — your weekly read on overtime drift, attendance, and which shifts actually earned their labor cost.
For Boulder teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Boulder coffee shops run differently
- Pearl Street pulls the morning forward on weekends. Tourists hit the mall at 8. Locals on Saturdays move earlier — 7 to 9 is a different shop than Tuesday's 7 to 9.
- CU Boulder runs on the academic clock. Class days fill the 10-to-2 window. Spring-break Tuesdays go quiet. Game weekends rewrite Saturday entirely.
- A bluebird Saturday at the trailheads brings cyclists and trail-runners who buy a cup before they go up. A snowy one cuts that traffic in half. The Flatirons rewrite the weekend morning either way.
- Shift swaps stop being a group text. Mara posts she can't make Tuesday. Jess taps once and picks it up. You approve from your phone, or auto-approve trusted swaps.
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.
02Boulder's wage is higher than the rest of Colorado. Does that matter?+
It matters because an overstaffed hour costs $1.66 more here than at a shop paying the Colorado state floor. Coordinex shows the assumption applied to your block before you publish, so the wrong call doesn't surprise you on payroll day.
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.
07Will this work for one shop, or do I need two?+
One shop is the design. Two shops on different blocks get separate models — the downtown curve and the campus curve don't share.
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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