Katana

Manufacturing, Invoicing and jobs, and Inventory

Modern manufacturing & inventory software for small & scaling businesses. Visual interface and real-time master planning to automate workflows, prioritize orders, track inventory in real-time, and access floor-level control app. Wide variety of native and third-party integrations, and an open API.

Overview

Katana is a modern manufacturing & inventory management software for small and scaling businesses. Its visual interface and smart real-time master planning allow manufacturers to get an overview of the entire business from one centralized point of truth. Katana integrates popular eCommerce and accounting service providers such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Xero, and QuickBooks to name a few. Katana has an open API should the user want to build their own integrations.

With Katana, you can prioritize orders, see the availability of raw materials & finished goods in real-time, and ensure end-to-end traceability of materials and products. Katana automatically follows the stock movements across the production cycle and in multiple warehouses allowing you to maintain optimal inventory levels.

Build BOMs and track material availability for make to order workflows or fulfill the order from available product stock. Easily create, set-up, and remove shop floor operators and receive real-time manufacturing insights from the floor-level app, and track manufacturing costs based on product recipes and production operations.

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Katana + Xero

When Xero is connected with Katana, you can create invoices and bills, which will automatically update your Xero account. Click the created invoice or bill in Katana to open the document in Xero.

Besides our native integration that allows you to push sales orders from Katana to Xero, you can also set up an automatic sales order import from Xero to Katana via Zapier.

Getting started

Sign up to Katana with a 14-day free trial and open the “Integrations” list from the “Settings” menu. From there, you can connect your Xero account. It’s as simple as that!

A short on-boarding wizard will take you through a couple of configuration steps and you are all set. Katana has an extensive knowledge base with articles and videos that will help you get started in just days!

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4.8

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Matthew Aiken

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Fantastic support!

It has been a pleasure dealing with the support team. Extremely helpful people and engaging conversations when assistance is required. The software itself is well thought out works perfectly for our company. The continuous improvements are great to see as well. Keep it up Katana.

Rowena Janes

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Does everything it says it will

That may not sound very exciting, but in the world of software, it's not always a given that things will operate seamlessly, first time. However, that's exactly what Katana has done. It's pretty powerful, which means that there's quite a lot to it, and I found that the investment of a couple of hours to watch the basic training video, which outlines how it all works, and then some subject-specific (much shorter) training videos, was really worthwhile. Once I'd done that, the setup was straightforward and the integration with Xero so simple I was left thinking "Is that it?!" (in a good way!) The one or two very minor niggles I have are just that - minor, and the support team (who are great, even though it's all online) seem open to listening to suggestions from users for future tweaks/adjustments. All up, I would definitely recommend.

Cameron Hogg

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Easy to set up - easy to use

We've been using Katana for almost 12-months now, and it has helped us create efficiencies in our supply chain, more closely monitor our production scheduling, and tighten up on our inventory management. It is easy to use and easy to navigate so the whole team can benefit.

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