The dry-erase calendar wins again.
Not next Orem Saturday it doesn't.
Utah floor is $7.25. One iPhone app covers the lot — the schedule, on-site clock-in, shift trades, advance pay your team can tap before Friday, and the group thread that replaces your texts. Thirteen weeks of your Square history shapes the draft, so a UVU campus Saturday doesn't staff like a regular Tuesday morning.
Coffee shop scheduling for Orem, UT.
Orem, UT
Utah follows the federal FLSA standard: $7.25/hr minimum wage, $2.13/hr tipped cash wage when tips make up the difference, and 1.5x overtime after 40 hours in a workweek. Utah state law preempts local minimum-wage ordinances, so city wage-floor pressure does not apply.
Orem 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 7:45 a.m., class day. The UVU campus crowd is at the bar. By 9 the rush 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 Orem mornings already sit in your Square account. Real numbers. Hour by hour. The thing nobody flips through during a Sunday rebuild. That draft is just the front door, though — the same app then handles who's actually behind the bar and how the day gets paid.
When the doors open, the rest is already wired: openers clock in from their phones inside the shop's perimeter, each shift's prep and stocking list is attached, a barista who picks up an extra Saturday sees the hours land in early-pay before payday, and the whole crew talks in one thread instead of a runaway group text.
You still run the shop. We're not pretending the app knows your team better than you do.
Both of us did time behind a register before we wrote a line of code. The Sunday rebuild is the moment Coordinex was built for. Pretend University Place on a Tuesday is State Street 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. Utah 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. And Pulse keeps a running tab on the things you'd otherwise miss — labor as a share of sales, anyone creeping up on overtime, attendance that's slipping — with the reports ready when you need to show the numbers.
For Orem teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Orem coffee shops run differently
- UVU is the weekly rhythm. Utah Valley University brings 41,000+ students into the local demand curve. Campus-adjacent shops need more than a generic weekday/weekend template.
- Break weeks change the floor. Spring break, winter break, and the May-to-August gap can turn a normal weekday into a slow one.
- A weekday morning and a weekend pull don't share a curve. Coordinex draws each one separately so neither overstaffs the other.
- The group text dies in week one. Mara posts she can't make Tuesday; Jess covers it inside the app; trusted swaps auto-approve while you're closing out Sunday.
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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