Sunday night, the schedule is still a guess.
Coordinex reads your rush off Square.
Washington's floor is $17.13. We pull 13 weeks of your Square sales and draft next week — a Transit Center commute morning shouldn't staff like a slow Saturday.
Coffee shop scheduling for Federal Way, WA.
Federal Way, WA
Washington's 2026 state minimum wage is $17.13/hr and Washington does not allow a tip credit, so tipped baristas must receive the full applicable minimum wage before tips. FLSA weekly overtime applies at 1.5x after 40 hours in a workweek. Seattle and certain airport/local jurisdictions can set higher local floors, so Federal Way operators should keep location-specific wage checks visible before publishing schedules.
Federal Way 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 in Federal Way and the rain hasn't let up. The Transit Center commuters come through first, the Commons crowd trails them, and by 9 your morning rush is already done.
Other tools 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 your hunch wrong.
Here's the part every scheduling app fakes: three months of your Federal Way mornings already sit in your Square account. Real numbers. Hour by hour. The thing you never have time to flip through on a Sunday night.
You still run the shop. We're not pretending we know your closers better than you do — your gut 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. The Commons foot traffic packs your morning into one hour; a Celebration Park weekend stretches the afternoon by two — one flat roster for both is the Sunday trap. 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. Washington 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 Federal Way coffee shops run differently
- The Commons sets your weekday morning. Retail foot traffic crowds the early hours, then thins out fast — staff the whole shift for the peak and you've paid an extra hand to stand around by 10. Coordinex checks whether that crowd actually shows up in your Square sales before it drafts.
- The Transit Center commute runs on a different clock than the mall. Bus waves hit early and steady; Commons shoppers drift in later. One roster can't cover both well. The draft shapes itself to where your shop actually sits.
- Celebration Park weekends flip the whole pattern. A game or a meet pushes families through your door midday, long after the commute's gone quiet. A flat weekday schedule misses that wave every time. You won't.
- Rain is the quiet wildcard here. A gray Tuesday keeps walk-ins home and you're still paying a closer you didn't need. Coordinex shows you the slow days 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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