$15.45 in Santa Fe.
A city-living-wage floor above the rest of New Mexico.
Coordinex is the whole back office on your phone: it drafts next week from three months of your hourly Square sales, pins the opening and closing tasks to each shift, keeps the team in one thread, and hands you a Sunday labor report that actually reads. An Indian Market Saturday and a regular Tuesday stop sharing a schedule.
Coffee shop scheduling for Santa Fe, NM.
Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe's 2026 minimum wage is $15.45/hr under the city Living Wage Ordinance — $3.45 above New Mexico's $12.00 state floor. The city minimum adjusts annually with inflation each March. Tipped employees may receive a lower tipped minimum, but combined wage plus tips must reach the full city minimum. NM weekly overtime applies after 40 hours.
Santa Fe coffee demand splits across Plaza tourist mornings, gallery-walk afternoon traffic, and weekend brunch pulls. Indian Market (third weekend in August) doubles the morning for four straight days.
What changes Tuesday
It's 6:30 a.m. The Plaza crowd is already in line. By 9, the morning is over.
Most scheduling apps still expect you to guess next week's busy hours and type them into a form. You won't, because nobody does. The dry-erase board wins again.
Three months of your Santa Fe 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 schedule is only the first thing it carries. The opening list, the mid-shift restock, the closing count — they ride on the shift as tasks, checked off on a phone, not on a clipboard that walks out the door. Your team clocks in on location, so the timesheet matches the floor. Announcements and shift covers live in one thread instead of three group chats. When a barista needs cash before payday, they pull what they've already earned without a lender taking a bite. And the same Square numbers that drafted the week come back Sunday as a report — labor against sales, the overtime creeping up on you — without you building a spreadsheet.
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. Pretend Canyon Road on a Tuesday is Railyard 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. Santa Fe's $15.45 living-wage floor stays visible before publish.
Every Sunday, your demand curve sharpens
It learns the gallery-walk weekends, the post-Indian-Market quiet, the snowfall-correlated Saturday lifts. Then Pulse hands the week back as a labor report you can read in a minute — cost against sales, who's nearing overtime, what to watch next week.
For Santa Fe teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Santa Fe coffee shops run differently
- Indian Market is the year's tentpole. The third weekend of August pulls 100,000+ visitors into the Plaza and Canyon Road. Cafes lift 2-3x; a flat schedule misses the pre-dawn rush every morning of that week.
- First-Friday gallery walks layer year-round evening lifts onto Canyon Road-adjacent cafes that don't appear on any generic seasonality model. Pretend it's a regular Friday and you'll be short by 5.
- Plaza and Railyard run different clocks. Plaza tourists fill the morning; Railyard locals fill afternoon brunch. A single weekday schedule overstaffs one of them every day.
- Ski season runs December through March. A heavy snow weekend lifts Saturday 1.5x; a closed-mountain weekend cuts it. The morning pattern matters more than total volume.
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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