You hire by the cup at 7.
We staffed it from Square at 5.
Alaska floor is $13.00. We pull 13 weeks of your Square data and draft next week — a Central Peninsula Hospital Saturday shouldn't staff like a regular Tuesday morning.
Coffee shop scheduling for Soldotna, AK.
Soldotna, 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.
Soldotna 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 Downtown Soldotna crowd is already in line. By 9, the morning is over.
Other schedulers want you to enter labor demand by hand on a Sunday night. That's the part nobody actually does. Which is why the rota is wrong before it goes out.
Three months of your Soldotna 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. Kenai River salmon traffic compress the morning by an hour and summer visitor surges 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 Soldotna teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Soldotna coffee shops run differently
- Kenai River salmon traffic changes one part of the curve. Should not be averaged into every Soldotna shift. Coordinex learns whether that signal actually appears in your Square history.
- Hospital shifts add another staffing layer. Can pull a different daypart than Downtown Soldotna or Kenai River. The schedule should reflect where your shop actually sits.
- During summer visitor surges, the morning curve runs hotter and longer than a regular weekday. A flat schedule will miss it.
- Mara called out for Tuesday at 9 p.m. Sunday. Jess saw it before you did, picked it up in the app, and the dry-erase board never had to come down.
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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