Loop at 6. Champaign finals at 7.
We drafted both.
Illinois floor is $15 and $9 tipped. Coordinex reads 13 weeks of your Square data and drafts next week in 12 minutes — A finals-week campus Tuesday and a Lake Geneva summer Saturday don't staff the same shift, and one citywide average can't tell them apart.
Coffee shop scheduling across Illinois.
Illinois, IL
Illinois state minimum wage is $15.00/hr (2026) with a tipped cash wage of $9.00/hr (the state allows a $6.00 tip credit). Local Chicago minimum wage is higher and indexed to inflation. Illinois requires daily overtime at 1.5x after 40 hours in a workweek (federal FLSA standard); the state does not impose a daily 8-hour overtime trigger. The Illinois One Day Rest in Seven Act guarantees one 24-hour rest period each calendar week.
Illinois coffee demand layers commute, college, sports, and event curves. Hybrid-office mornings rewrite the rush, a Champaign finals week rewrites the afternoon, and a Lollapalooza Friday rewrites the weekend — same staffing for all of them misses one.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6:30 a.m. The Arlington Heights block 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 Illinois 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 Bears Sunday compresses the morning by an hour and a Lollapalooza Friday stretches the afternoon by two — the same roster for both is the Sunday-rebuild trap.
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 downtown commuter Tuesday and a North-Shore Saturday don't share a curve, and 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. Illinois wage assumptions stay visible before publish.
Mara posts, Jess covers, you approve
Shift swaps stop being a group text. Mara posts she can't make Tuesday; Jess taps once and picks it up. You approve from your phone — or auto-approve trusted swaps.
Every Illinoiscity we’ve drafted next week for
Same Square data, different blocks. 19 Illinoiscoffee shops with their own local rhythm and the same Sunday-night problem. Click through for the page we wrote for that city’s rush.
- Arlington Heightsmetro 76,005
- Aurorametro 179,898
- Bloomingtonmetro 78,907
- Bolingbrookmetro 74,096
- Champaignmetro 89,996
- Chicagometro 2,711,226
- Cicerometro 82,797
- Decaturmetro 69,815
- Elginmetro 114,934
- Evanstonmetro 76,340
- Jolietmetro 150,445
- Napervillemetro 150,692
- Palatinemetro 66,293
- Peoriametro 112,169
- Rockfordmetro 147,521
- Schaumburgmetro 76,868
- Skokiemetro 66,219
- Springfieldmetro 113,330
- Waukeganmetro 89,076
See Coordinex on iPhone
The same screens Apple shows when someone searches Coordinex on the App Store. No mockups — what your team actually sees on shift.
Home — today's coverage at a glance
Schedule — built from your last 13 weeks of POS data
Square — your sales drive staffing, not your gut
Ask anything — plain English, no menus to memorize
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.
02Is Coordinex more than a scheduler?+
It is. Earned wage access lets a Chicago barista pull earned pay before payday without a loan; geofenced clock-in catches a buddy-punch on a cold open; a shift swap is one tap, not a group text. One app, one Square connection, on iPhone.
03Illinois is a big state — does the same approach work for every city?+
Yes, because the inputs are local: your block's Square data, not a citywide or statewide average. The Square history your block already proved is what writes the schedule, and Coordinex reads each shop on its own.
04Does the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance apply to my coffee shop?+
The ordinance covers food-service employers with ≥30 employees globally and ≥250 hours of covered work locally. Most independent coffee shops are below that threshold and exempt. Coordinex still surfaces advance-notice norms above your draft so you can decide what's right for your team.
05What about overtime?+
Federal FLSA standard: 1.5x the regular rate after 40 hours in a workweek. Coordinex flags an OT-bound week before publish, not after the fact.
06How long does setup take?+
About four minutes for the Square OAuth and another ten before the first draft is ready. Most owners ship next week's schedule the same Sunday they connect.
07Who's behind it?+
Independent owner-operators who grew up inside small businesses. Built for the same kind of shop, with no enterprise overlay. We charge a small monthly fee, no per-employee tax.
08What 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.