5:30 in Colorado Springs.
The Garden of the Gods crowd is already in line.
$15.16 is the floor in Colorado. Coordinex is the whole back office in your pocket — scheduling, shift tasks, GPS clock-in and timesheets, early pay before payday, team messaging, and a labor read that flags overtime before it lands. Three months of your hourly Square sales is the signal behind the draft, so an Academy weekend and a regular Briargate Tuesday don't get the same staffing.
Coffee shop scheduling for Colorado Springs, CO.
Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado's 2026 minimum wage is $15.16/hr, with a $12.14/hr tipped cash wage when tips bring the worker to the full floor. CO weekly overtime applies after 40 hours; daily overtime applies after 12 hours in any shift. Colorado Springs has no city-level minimum above the state floor.
Colorado Springs coffee demand splits across Downtown commute mornings, Briargate suburban-school clocks, and Garden of the Gods weekend tourism. Air Force Academy game weekends rewrite Saturdays.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6:30 a.m. The Downtown 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 Colorado Springs mornings already sit in your Square account. Real numbers. Hour by hour. The thing nobody flips through during a Sunday rebuild. It feeds the forecast — it isn't the whole product.
The schedule is one tab. The rest of the day runs here too. Opening and closing duties drop onto each shift as a checklist, so a new hire on a game-day Saturday knows exactly what to do. Clock-ins are anchored to the cafe's address, which keeps the punch honest and the timesheet clean. Swaps and call-outs happen in the team thread instead of three different texts. Staff can pull pay they've already earned when a PCS move squeezes their cash flow — no payday lender, no awkward ask. And because Colorado runs daily overtime after 12 hours, Pulse keeps an eye on long shifts and overtime drift and tells you before the numbers do.
You still run the shop. We're not pretending the app knows your team better than you do.
We came up inside the kind of shop you're trying to run — Sunday rebuilds, group-text triage, a pen and a guess. Coordinex is what we wished existed back then. A Briargate weekday and a University Village Saturday don't staff the same shift, and one citywide average can't tell them apart. 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 — read-only, nothing on Square's end changes. The same few taps add your baristas and switch on GPS clock-in, shift tasks, team messaging, and early pay.
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. Colorado's $15.16 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.
For the people who actually pour the coffee.
How Colorado Springs coffee shops run differently
- Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak pull weekend tourists. May through October the trailheads fill at 6. A bluebird Saturday lifts cafes 1.5x; a snowstorm Saturday cuts it in half.
- Air Force Academy weekends rewrite Saturday. Six or seven home games a year plus parents weekend pull the entire region in. A flat schedule misses the pre-game crowd entirely.
- Briargate and the suburbs run on school clocks. Drop-off at 7:30, pickup at 2:30, almost nothing between. Pretend it's a downtown block and you'll overstaff every weekday morning.
- Military PCS rotations are the quiet variable. Base-driven household rhythms change staffing availability and customer flow without warning a generic scheduler.
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.
04Does it do more than build the schedule?+
A lot more. Shift checklists, GPS timesheets, early pay, and team chat are all in the one app — the schedule is just where most owners start. Pulse turns your hours and sales into a labor read that surfaces overtime risk and slow stretches, so the reports you'd otherwise build by hand are already done.
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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