You knew Tuesday wouldn't be quiet.
Square saw it three months ago.
Iowa floor is $7.25. We pull 13 weeks of your Square data and draft next week — a UNI Dome Saturday shouldn't staff like a regular Tuesday morning.
Cedar Falls, IA
Iowa's 2026 minimum wage is $7.25/hr. Iowa allows a tip credit of varies; tipped cash wage is $4.35 if tips bring total to $7.25. Weekly overtime applies after 40 hours.
Cedar Falls coffee demand splits across morning commute rushes, afternoon walk-in traffic, and weekend brunch pulls. The same staffing for all three will overstaff one of them.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6:30 a.m. The University of Northern Iowa crowd is already in line. By 9, the morning is over.
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 Cedar Falls 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.
Both of us did time behind a register before we wrote a line of code. The Sunday rebuild is the moment Coordinex was built for. A University of Northern Iowa weekday and a Downtown Cedar Falls Saturday do not staff the same shift, and College Hill rewrites the math again. 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 wage 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 Cedar Falls teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Cedar Falls coffee shops run differently
- Mornings move with the commute, not the calendar. Tuesdays hit the bar by 7:30; Saturdays start an hour later. The same staffing for both will miss one.
- Downtown Cedar Falls runs on a different clock. Class days, office days, school days each fill a different window. The afternoon and the morning aren't the same shop.
- On College Hill days, demand spikes hard. Pre-event the line wraps; post-event the patio empties. Each event has its own pattern.
- 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.
02My 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.
03We'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.
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.
06Will this work for one shop, or do I need two?+
One shop is the design. Two shops on different blocks get separate models — the morning curve and the weekend curve don't share.
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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