Your Sunday rebuild guesses the morning rush.
We already read it off Square.
Alaska's floor is $13.00. We pull 13 weeks of your Square sales and draft next week — a Glenn Highway commute morning shouldn't staff like a slow Saturday.
Coffee shop scheduling for Eagle River, AK.
Eagle River, AK
Alaska's minimum wage is $13.00/hr through June 30, 2026, with statutory increases to $14.00/hr on 2026-07-01 and $15.00/hr on 2027-07-01. Alaska does not allow tips or gratuities as a credit toward the state minimum wage, so tipped baristas must receive the full $13.00/hr before tips. Alaska overtime generally applies at 1.5x after 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in a workweek; federal FLSA rules and federal contractor wage rules may also apply for military, airport, and government-contract contexts.
Eagle River 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 still dark at 6 in Eagle River. The Town Center commuters hit the door before the Glenn Highway fills, and by 9 your morning rush is already in the books.
Most apps ask you to guess that rush — type tomorrow's numbers into an empty form. Nobody does. So the schedule ships on a hunch, and the line at 7:30 proves the hunch wrong.
Here's the part every scheduling app fakes. Three months of your Eagle River mornings already sit in your Square account. Real numbers. Hour by hour. The thing you never have time to flip through during a Sunday rebuild.
You still run the shop. We're not pretending we know your openers better than you do — your read on the floor beats any draft.
One of us grew up inside a small family business that wrote next week's schedule on a Sunday with a pen and a guess. Coordinex is the version we wished we'd had, ported to coffee. A Wednesday on JBER north-gate time and a Saturday on the school-year calendar are different shops — no matter what last quarter's average tells you. We saw it on our own block before we built it. 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. Alaska 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 Eagle River coffee shops run differently
- The Glenn Highway commute owns your first hour. When traffic backs up, Town Center fills early and empties by 9. Staff that morning like a slow Saturday and you've paid two baristas to wipe down counters. Coordinex checks whether that wave actually shows up in your Square sales before it drafts.
- Eagle River Nature Center weekends pull a different crowd than the weekday gate runs. Trail mornings spike late. Commute mornings spike early. One roster can't cover both well — so the draft shapes itself to where your shop actually sits.
- JBER north-gate mornings run hotter and longer. When the gate's busy, your rush doesn't taper at 9. It drags to 10. A flat weekday schedule misses that tail every time, and if someone calls out you're scrambling to cover the shift. You won't be — you'll have seen it coming.
- Dark season is the quiet trap. The sun's barely up, walk-ins thin out, and you're still paying a closer you didn't need. Coordinex shows you the slow weeks before payroll does — not after.
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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