The dry-erase calendar wins again.
Not next Lakewood Saturday it doesn't.
Colorado floor is $15.16. Coordinex runs your whole crew from one app — phone clock-in, the shift task list, team messaging, early pay, and labor reports — and it reads 13 weeks of your Square sales to draft next week, so a Belmar Saturday doesn't staff like a regular Tuesday morning.
Coffee shop scheduling for Lakewood, CO.
Lakewood, 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. Colorado overtime can apply after 40 hours in a week, 12 hours in a day, or 12 consecutive hours. Coordinex keeps those labor-rule checks visible before the schedule goes out.
Lakewood 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 Belmar crowd 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 Lakewood 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.
The schedule is one tab of many. Staff clock in and out from their phones, fenced to the shop, so your hours come out clean and nobody punches a friend in early. The opening routine sits in the app as a task list, so the crew moves through prep without you walking them through it. You all talk in team messaging instead of a personal group chat, and your people can draw on pay they've already earned before payday — a quiet edge when the barista down by Belmar is weighing your shop against a bigger one. Pulse takes the same Square history and hands you a clear labor read: where the hours land, who's near overtime, which days are climbing.
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 Union Boulevard / St. Anthony campus on a Tuesday is Green Mountain 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 wage assumptions stay visible before publish.
Then the crew runs the day on it
With the schedule out, your team clocks in by phone, checks off the shift task list, messages you, and pulls early pay when payday's still off. Each week's real sales also feed back in, so the next draft starts from a smaller error than the last.
For the people who actually pour the coffee.
How Lakewood coffee shops run differently
- Belmar and Colorado Mills are retail signals. Retail weekends and holiday shopping windows can lift demand without changing normal weekday coverage.
- Union Boulevard is a shift signal. Medical, office, and commuter rhythms near the St. Anthony campus do not behave like a trailhead cafe morning.
- A weekday morning and a weekend pull don't share a curve. Coordinex draws each one separately so neither overstaffs the other.
- 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.
- Keeping a good barista is its own kind of staffing. Early pay lets your crew reach wages they've already earned before payday, straight from the app — the sort of perk a bigger shop down the road has and the one across the street usually doesn't.
Frequently asked
01What can Coordinex do besides build the schedule?+
Plenty. GPS phone clock-in and time tracking, opening and prep task lists, team messaging, early wage access for your baristas, shared docs, and Pulse labor reports. The Square link is what sharpens the scheduling forecast — it's one feature among many, and the rest runs on its own.
02What 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.
03My 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.
04We'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.
05Honest 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.
06How 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.
07What 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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