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Inventory and manufacturing software integrated with QuickBooks and Xero
Katana
Cloud inventory, order and production management for multi-channel product businesses
- Deployment
- Cloud
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Target size
- small plants
Updated · By Oleksii Bilokamenskyi, Founder, MetaProject · How we rank
About Katana
Katana is a cloud inventory management platform for product businesses that sell across multiple channels and locations. Its core modules cover inventory management, order management, manufacturing, purchasing, warehousing and demand forecasting. Bills of materials, manufacturing routings, and a shop floor app support production tracking, while add-on modules cover traceability (lot and serial numbers), warehouse management and manufacturing management.
The vendor's site describes Katana as built for manufacturers, multi-channel brands, and hybrid product businesses that combine in-house and outsourced production, including regulated product industries that need batch or serial traceability. It is delivered as cloud software, with native integrations to ecommerce platforms such as Shopify, Amazon and WooCommerce, plus accounting and shipping tools, and an open API.
Pricing is usage-based. A Free plan covers up to 30 SKUs on the Shopify integration only. The Core plan is listed starting at $299 per month for one inventory location, with add-ons for traceability, warehouse management and manufacturing management priced separately at $249, $149 and $199 per month respectively, plus usage-based charges for additional sales orders and locations. An Advantage plan is custom-priced and quoted per business. The site does not state a per-order or per-location unit price, so the total cost for a given operation cannot be read as a single figure from the pages reviewed.
Katana at a glance
| Founded | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Estonia |
| Company size | Nearly 100 employees |
| Deployment | Cloud |
| Pricing model | Freemium |
| Price | From $299 / month |
| Pricing (as reported) | $299/mo (free plan) |
| Target size | small manufacturers |
| Industries | Multi-channel commerce, Manufacturing, Regulated product industries |
| Integrations | Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, Xero, QuickBooks, Shiptheory |
Pricing and facts as reported by the vendor or public listings, checked when this profile was researched. Source: katanamrp.com.
Pros and cons
What works
- Documents native integrations with Shopify, Amazon and WooCommerce plus an open API
- Includes lot and serial number traceability as a documented add-on
- Provides a barcode-enabled Warehouse app for picking, packing and receiving
- Supports multi-location inventory tracking with unlimited locations on some plans
- Includes a Shop Floor app for recording production progress and material usage
What does not
- Core plan pricing adds separate monthly charges for traceability, warehouse management and manufacturing add-ons
- Free plan is limited to 30 SKUs and only supports a Shopify ecommerce integration
- Usage-based pricing for sales orders and additional locations is not stated as a fixed figure on the pricing page
- Onboarding is offered as an optional $2,000 package on the Core plan
Who Katana is best for
Product businesses selling across multiple sales channels and locations that need inventory, order and production tracking in one system.
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