$16.90. 12 minutes.
Tuesday published by 9.
$16.90 is the floor in Sacramento. Coordinex reads three months of your hourly Square sales and drafts next week so a session-week morning and a weekend brunch don't get the same staffing.
Sacramento, CA
Sacramento's 2026 minimum wage is $16.90/hr — slightly above California's $16.50 state floor. CA does not allow a tip credit at the state level. CA daily overtime applies after 8 hours; doubletime after 12. The $20/hr fast-food law applies only to chains with 60+ locations nationally.
Sacramento coffee demand splits across grid legislative-session morning rushes, Downtown commute traffic, and East Sacramento weekend residential pulls. Session weeks (January through September) double the morning; recess weeks halve it.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6:45 a.m. The Capitol staffers are in line. By 8:30, the grid is empty till lunch.
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 Sacramento 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.
One of us grew up inside a small family business that wrote next week's schedule on Sunday with a pen and a guess. Coordinex is the version we wished existed back then, ported to coffee. A Midtown legislative-session weekday and an East Sacramento Saturday brunch do not staff the same shift, and the Downtown commute changes that math again. 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. Sacramento's $16.90 wage assumption stays 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 one.
For Sacramento teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Sacramento coffee shops run differently
- Midtown runs on the legislative clock. Session weeks fill the 7-to-9 window with Capitol staffers; recess weeks halve it. Saturday's a different shop.
- Downtown is the office tower stack. 7:30-to-9 is the morning; the afternoon trickles down; weekends are dead.
- During session-end weeks (mid-September), the morning compresses by 30 minutes earlier as deadline pressure builds. The pattern shows up in your Square data once you look for it.
- 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.
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.
02Does session week really change the schedule that much?+
Yes — Midtown coffee shops see a 40 to 60 percent morning swing depending on whether the legislature is in session. Coordinex sees the spike in your last-year Square history and treats session and recess as separate patterns.
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.
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.
06We'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.
07Will this work for one shop, or do I need two?+
One shop is the design. Two shops on different blocks get separate models — the Capitol curve and the residential curve don't share.
08What 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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