Case Study: Summer Snow Juice achieves 7x production growth and major efficiency gains with Claris FileMaker Platform

Learn how one family farm uses a custom app to manage sales, production, and employee scheduling

Summer Snow Juice is a family-run Australian apple-juice maker that grew from a hail-damaged orchard into a nationally sold brand. Rapid growth exposed operational pain points: double-entry bookkeeping, no way to query product-level sales, and complex production and staffing needs across dozens of apple varieties and seasonal workers.

Nick Russo built a custom FileMaker app to import sales into accounting, track granular product and batch data, schedule vats to minimize cleanings, and manage employee rostering and certifications. The app—which runs on Macs, iPads and iPhones—automates the work of three full-time admins, supported a 7x increase in output without adding office staff, saves an estimated $2,100–$6,000 weekly in avoided washings (and prevented a 30% increase in vats costing ~$75,000), reduces peak-era office hours, and helps the company serve 190+ retailers.

Summer Snow Juice

Nick Russo

Chief Executive Officer