It's 7:45 in Tempe.
The ASU 8 a.m. is at the bar.
$15.15 is the floor in Arizona. Coordinex runs the whole shop from one iPhone — schedules, GPS clock-in, shift swaps, early pay for your baristas, and team messaging. The draft starts from three months of your hourly Square sales, so a Sun Devil Saturday and a spring-break Tuesday don't get the same staffing.
Coffee shop scheduling for Tempe, AZ.
Tempe, AZ
Arizona's 2026 minimum wage is $15.15/hr. AZ lets up to $3.00/hr in tips count toward that floor, so the cash rate can be $12.15 when tips bring the total to $15.15. AZ weekly overtime applies after 40 hours; AZ has no daily overtime rule. Tempe has no city-level scheduling ordinance.
Tempe demand follows the class calendar. Finals week, breaks, and game weekends each rewrite the curve.
What changes Tuesday
It's 7:45 a.m., class day. The ASU Tempe campus crowd is at the bar. By 9 the rush 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 Tempe mornings already sit in your Square account. Real numbers. Hour by hour. The thing nobody flips through during a Sunday rebuild. The schedule is where Coordinex starts, not where it stops — once the week is posted, the same app runs clock-in, opening and cleaning checklists, the team thread, and payday.
So the morning runs itself: baristas clock in on their phones inside the shop's geofence, the prep and close tasks for each shift are already assigned, anyone who needs Friday off swaps it in the app, and a closer short on rent can cash out wages they've already earned without waiting for payday.
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 Mill Avenue weekday and a University Drive 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. Arizona's $15.15 wage assumption stays visible before publish.
Every Sunday, your demand curve sharpens
It learns the bye-week drops, the Family Weekend lifts, the post-finals cliff. Pulse, the labor-intelligence view, turns that into one weekly read — projected labor cost against sales, who's drifting toward overtime, which mornings you overstaffed — so the next draft and your reports both get smarter.
For Tempe teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Tempe coffee shops run differently
- The ASU calendar is the headline. Cafes within a mile of campus see 25-40% drops during winter break (mid-December through mid-January) and spring break. Pretend a class week is a break week and you'll overstaff every morning.
- Sun Devil home games rewrite Saturday. Six or seven Saturdays a year, Mill Avenue and Apache Boulevard cafes lift 1.5-2.5x. The other Saturdays look nothing alike.
- Mill Avenue runs late. The late-afternoon and night-life pull keep the bar busy past 4. Generic SaaS schedules send everyone home at 2 and miss it.
- A 108-degree June afternoon doesn't need 4 baristas. It needs 1, door propped, patio shaded. Coordinex shows the heat-day pattern your shop already proved last summer.
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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