The dry-erase calendar wins again.
Not next North Pole Saturday it doesn't.
Alaska floor is $13.00. We pull 13 weeks of your Square data and draft next week — a Holiday tourism Saturday shouldn't staff like a regular Tuesday morning.
Coffee shop scheduling for North Pole, AK.
North Pole, AK
Alaska's minimum wage is $13.00/hr through June 30, 2026, with statutory increases to $14.00/hr on 2026-07-01 and $15.00/hr on 2027-07-01. Alaska does not allow tips or gratuities as a credit toward the state minimum wage, so tipped baristas must receive the full $13.00/hr before tips. Alaska overtime generally applies at 1.5x after 8 hours in a day or 40 hours in a workweek; federal FLSA rules and federal contractor wage rules may also apply for military, airport, and government-contract contexts.
North Pole 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 Santa Claus Lane crowd is already in line. By 9, the morning 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 North Pole 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.
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. Eielson Air Force Base commute windows compress the morning by an hour and winter cold snaps stretch the afternoon by two — the same roster for both is the Sunday-rebuild 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. Alaska 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 North Pole teams who keep the coffee moving.
How North Pole coffee shops run differently
- Holiday tourism changes one part of the curve. Should not be averaged into every North Pole shift. Coordinex learns whether that signal actually appears in your Square history.
- Eielson shift weeks add another staffing layer. Can pull a different daypart than Santa Claus Lane or Richardson Highway. The schedule should reflect where your shop actually sits.
- During winter cold snaps, the morning curve runs hotter and longer than a regular weekday. A flat schedule will miss it.
- Tuesday cover used to be a fourteen-text group thread. Now Mara posts the open shift, Jess taps once, and you approve before you've finished cash-up.
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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