The dry-erase calendar wins again.
Not next Columbia Falls Saturday it doesn't.
Montana floor is $10.85. We pull 13 weeks of your Square data and draft next week — a Glacier gateway Saturday shouldn't staff like a regular Tuesday morning.
Coffee shop scheduling for Columbia Falls, MT.
Columbia Falls, MT
Montana's 2026 minimum wage is $10.85/hr, effective January 1, 2026, and is adjusted annually by CPI. Montana does not allow tip credit, meal credit, or training wage, so tipped baristas must receive the full Montana minimum wage before tips. A narrow exception lets non-FLSA-covered businesses with gross annual sales of $110000.00 or less pay $4.00/hr, but FLSA-covered workers must receive the greater of federal or Montana minimum wage. FLSA weekly overtime applies at 1.5x after 40 hours in a workweek; Montana does not set predictive scheduling rules for coffee shops.
Columbia 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 Downtown Columbia Falls crowd is already in line. By 9, the morning is over.
Here's the part every scheduling app fakes: it asks you to predict the rush, hour by hour, before publish. You skip it every time. Then Tuesday humbles the roster.
Three months of your Columbia 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.
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 summer visitor surges morning rewrites the rush hour, and a Flathead River recreation weekend rewrites the rush again — the same staffing for both will miss 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. Montana 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.
For the people who actually pour the coffee.
How Columbia Falls coffee shops run differently
- Glacier National Park gateway travel changes one part of the curve. Should not be averaged into every Columbia Falls shift. Coordinex learns whether that signal actually appears in your Square history.
- Bad Rock Canyon adds another staffing layer. Can pull a different daypart than Downtown Columbia Falls or Glacier National Park gateway.
- During summer visitor surges, the morning curve runs hotter and longer than a regular weekday. A flat schedule will miss it.
- Tuesday cover used to be a fourteen-text group thread. Now Mara posts the open shift, Jess taps once, and you approve before you've finished cash-up.
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.
06What 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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