Missoula opens before the campus does.
We drafted the morning from your Square data.
Montana's floor is $10.85. We pull 13 weeks of your Square sales and draft next week — a Griz game Saturday shouldn't staff like a slow Tuesday.
Coffee shop scheduling for Missoula, MT.
Missoula, MT
Montana's 2026 minimum wage is $10.85/hr, effective January 1, 2026, and is adjusted annually by CPI. Montana does not allow tip credit, meal credit, or training wage, so tipped baristas must receive the full Montana minimum wage before tips. A narrow exception lets non-FLSA-covered businesses with gross annual sales of $110000.00 or less pay $4.00/hr, but FLSA-covered workers must receive the greater of federal or Montana minimum wage. FLSA weekly overtime applies at 1.5x after 40 hours in a workweek; Montana does not set predictive scheduling rules for coffee shops.
Missoula 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 in Downtown Missoula. The early regulars are already in line. By 9, the morning rush is over.
Other apps want a forecast you don't have time to enter. They ship the roster with empty fields and call it predictive. It's wrong before the lights are on.
Here's the part every scheduling app fakes. Thirteen weeks of your Missoula 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 don't pretend the app knows your team better than you do.
We grew up around shops like yours — the kind where the owner writes next week's schedule Sunday night with a pen and a guess. Coordinex is what we wished existed back then. A University of Montana class Tuesday and a Clark Fork riverfront Saturday don't fill the same hours, and a flat roster 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 13 weeks of hourly sales. We don't change a thing in your Square account. You sign in, give read-only permission, done.
Next week, drafted in 12 minutes
We draft next week from your hourly Square sales, so you spend 12 minutes editing instead of 90 rebuilding from scratch. Montana's full $10.85 floor stays visible before you publish.
Every Sunday, your draft sharpens
Last week's actual sales feed back in. The model fitted to your shop adjusts. Next Sunday's draft starts closer than the last one did.
For the Missoula crew who keep the morning rush moving.
How Missoula coffee shops run differently
- University of Montana sets the weekday clock. Class weeks pack the morning; reading week and summer hollow it out. Coordinex reads which one your Square history proves, so you don't staff a dead Tuesday like a full one.
- The Clark Fork riverfront owns warm Saturdays. A July float day pulls an afternoon crowd off the trail; a snowed-in January weekend doesn't. We don't guess that — your sales already saw it.
- Griz game Saturdays rewrite the whole day. Home games downtown flood the bar before kickoff, and a flat roster won't catch it. The schedule should know a game weekend from a quiet one.
- Mara's kid is sick and her Tuesday opener's wide open. She posts it, Jess covers the shift, and the only message on your phone is the one that says it's already done.
Frequently asked
01What does Coordinex actually read from my Square account?+
Hourly sales, ticket counts, and item sales for the last 13 weeks. Read-only. We don't write back, we don't change your menu, we don't touch payments. You give read-only permission and that's the whole handshake.
02How does Coordinex handle Montana wage rules?+
Montana's 2026 floor is $10.85/hr, adjusted each year by CPI, and the state allows no tip credit — so your tipped baristas earn the full minimum before tips. Coordinex keeps that full-wage assumption and your 40-hour overtime line visible before you publish.
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 pull it without a payday lender. We don't take a cut from them, and 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 pattern where one phone clocks in two people. We don't want you to be the cop — we just 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 does it cost?+
Free up to 5 teammates — no card. Starter is $9.99/mo with a 7-day Apple trial; Pro is $24.99/mo. Full pricing at coordinex.app/pricing. One avoided overstaffed Tuesday covers most of it. If it 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.
More Montana coffee shops
Same Square data, different blocks. Three more Montanacoffee shops we’ve drafted next week for —