Tuesday's quiet. Then it's not.
Provo shops know. We saw it in the data.
Utah floor is $7.25. Coordinex runs the whole back of house from one iPhone — schedules, GPS clock-in, shift tasks, team messaging, and early pay for your baristas. Thirteen weeks of your Square history teach the draft so a BYU campus Saturday never staffs like a regular Tuesday morning.
Coffee shop scheduling for Provo, UT.
Provo, 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.
Provo 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 BYU campus crowd is at the bar. By 9 the rush is over.
Here's the part every scheduling app fakes: it asks you to predict the rush, hour by hour, before publish. You skip it every time. Then Tuesday humbles the roster.
Three months of your Provo 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.
And the draft is only the front door. Once the week is set, the same app runs the rest of the floor: baristas clock in by GPS so the punch is honest, open and close checklists land on the right shift instead of a laminated card nobody reads, the whole crew talks in one team thread instead of a runaway group text, and anyone short on rent can tap into pay they've already earned without a payday lender. Your Pulse view rolls labor cost, overtime drift, and hours-per-barista into one weekly read — the report you used to rebuild in a spreadsheet on Sunday.
We came up inside the kind of shop you're trying to run — Sunday rebuilds, group-text triage, a pen and a guess. Coordinex is what we wished existed back then. A Joaquin weekday and a Riverwoods Saturday don't staff the same shift, and one citywide average can't tell them apart. 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.
For Provo teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Provo coffee shops run differently
- BYU is the weekly rhythm. Brigham Young University brings 34,000+ 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, then Pulse flags the week an extra closer tipped you into overtime before payroll does.
- Mara's kid is sick and Tuesday's open. She posts it to the shift board, Jess grabs it, the prep list moves with it, and the only message on your phone is the one that says it's already covered.
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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