The dry-erase calendar wins again.
Not next Topeka Saturday it doesn't.
Kansas floor is $7.25. We pull 13 weeks of your Square data and draft next week — a Kansas State Capitol workdays Saturday shouldn't staff like a regular Tuesday morning.
Coffee shop scheduling for Topeka, KS.
Topeka, KS
Kansas's minimum wage is $7.25/hr for employees not covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, and covered coffee-shop employers generally still use the federal $7.25/hr floor. The U.S. Department of Labor tipped-wage table lists Kansas at a $2.13/hr minimum cash wage with a $5.12 max tip credit when tips make up the difference to the full minimum wage. Kansas state overtime law applies after 46 hours for non-FLSA employers, while the federal FLSA generally requires 1.5x after 40 hours for covered employers. No statewide fair-workweek or predictive-scheduling rule is modeled here.
Topeka 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 Topeka crowd is already in line. By 9, the morning is over.
The other apps want a forecast you don't have time to enter. They ship the schedule with empty fields and call it predictive. The roster is wrong before the kitchen lights are on.
Three months of your Topeka 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. Pretend NOTO Arts District on a Tuesday is Washburn University 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. Kansas 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 Topeka teams who keep the coffee moving.
How Topeka coffee shops run differently
- Kansas State Capitol workdays change one part of the curve. Should not be averaged into every Topeka shift. Coordinex learns whether that signal actually appears in your Square history.
- Legislative-session traffic adds another staffing layer. Can pull a different daypart than Downtown Topeka or Kansas State Capitol. The schedule should reflect where your shop actually sits.
- During Washburn University weeks, the morning curve runs hotter and longer than a regular weekday. A flat schedule will miss it.
- Mara's kid is sick and Tuesday's open. She posts it, Jess takes it, and the only message on your phone is the one that says it's already done.
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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