It's 7:45 in Fort Collins.
The CSU 8 a.m. is at the bar.
$15.16 is the floor in Colorado. Coordinex is one iPhone app for the whole crew — schedule, GPS clock-in, early pay, and team chat — and it reads three months of your hourly Square sales so a CSU class week and an Old Town tourist weekend never get the same staffing.
Coffee shop scheduling for Fort Collins, CO.
Fort Collins, 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. Fort Collins has no city-level minimum above the state floor.
Fort Collins demand follows the class calendar. Finals week, breaks, and game weekends each rewrite the curve.
What changes Tuesday
It's 7:45 a.m., class day. The Old Town crowd is at the bar. By 9 the rush is over.
Every scheduler we've ever seen asks the manager to type in the busy hours by hand. The manager has thirteen other things to do. So the schedule is a guess wearing software.
Three months of your Fort Collins 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.
A schedule that fits the week is half the job. The other half is everything after you hit publish, and that lives in the same app: students on your crew clock in by GPS at the bar, reach a portion of pay they've already earned without waiting for payday, swap shifts and trade messages in one team thread, and work off the open/close checklists so finals-week chaos doesn't lose the prep list.
We're not a SaaS company that read a coffee blog. One of us grew up inside a family business; the other is still apologizing to a Sunday-night shift list. Pretend Campus West on a Tuesday is Midtown on a Saturday and you'll overstaff one of them, and a flat schedule picks the wrong one every time. 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. Colorado's $15.16 wage assumption stays visible before publish.
Every Sunday, the curve and the costs come into focus
Last week's real sales and clock-in hours feed back in, so each new draft fits your shop more closely. Pulse turns those same hours into a weekly labor read — where overtime is building, which slow blocks are overstaffed — so you are managing the numbers, not chasing them.
For the people who actually pour the coffee.
How Fort Collins coffee shops run differently
- The CSU calendar is the headline. Cafes near Campus West see 25-40% drops during winter break and spring break. Game weekends rewrite Saturday entirely.
- Old Town weekends don't disappear in summer. Demand shifts from semester routine to visitors, breweries, and downtown weekends. A student-week schedule will miss both directions.
- Midtown runs on commute clocks. Office mornings hit at 7:30; the middle of the day stays quiet. Pretend it's a campus block and the line at 11 will eat you alive.
- Labor is your biggest controllable line, and a quiet Tuesday afternoon is where it leaks. Baristas clock in by GPS at the bar so paid hours match worked hours, and Pulse flags the overstaffed blocks and creeping overtime before payroll day does.
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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