Rating
4.6
171 reviews
Starting price
$299
Usage Based
Categories
18
Founded
2017
Employees
150
Funding
64.1M
Series B
Katana Cloud Inventory Platform offers a centralized view of your inventory to maintain optimal stock levels and avoid stockouts. Bring sales, purchasing, production, and accounting into a single platform for an overview of your daily operations and performance. Manage orders from all sales channels and track products available for sale in real time. There’s also a Shop Floor App to work remotely with your team, batch tracking for total traceability, and automation for resources and reorders.
Ad spend / mo
$43K
192 paid keywords
Paid visits / mo
2,053
Organic keywords
19,634
Organic visits / mo
13,254
Authority
43
4,820 ref domains
Creatives run
100
as Katana Technologies OÜ
Active now
48
last 14 days
Advertising since
Mar 2024
2+ yrs running
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(171 reviews)
Overall good experience. There is a learning curve though the UI is good and layed out well. Generally, performs well
Pros: Fairly easy to use and navigate. The UI is well designed and easy to use with good features and UI. Support is good.
Cons: The pricing is expensive and the cancellation policy is terrible. Essentially it is 60 days to cancel.
Erik B. · CTO · Machinery · April 11, 2026
$78
Pros: Decent user interface and basic manufacturing features, with adequate inventory tracking and production planning for small teams.
Cons: The company has become increasingly difficult to work with, shows little understanding of small manufacturers’ realities, enforces punitive order-based pricing, changes terms mid-contract, and prioritizes larger customers over long-time users.
Andrew M. · Owner · Health, Wellness and Fitness · February 5, 2026
Katana was the goldilocks inventory solution for our manufacturing company. It wasn't too much and it wasn't too little, it was just right. I was able to create our product recipes and input all of our sku's relatively easily and get us onboarded quickly. It allowed us to see shortages earlier and remedy them before they became issues. Saved us time and money.
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| Chemical Manufacturing | 1 | 9 |
Domain confidence 98%
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Pros: Katana provided the right level of specificity for us. It wasn't too much where it overwhelming to get setup, but it was enough to track everything thing we needed.
Cons: Honestly the hardest part of Katana for us was getting correct daily counts from employees.
Tim P. · Owner · Construction · December 24, 2024
Stay away from this software. There are plenty on the market that won't try to rob you.
Cons: $79
Fabien M. · CEO · Health, Wellness and Fitness · July 5, 2024
I tried using Katana twice for my small laboratory which manufacture skincare
Pros: Company of any size can use it, you can in theory intergate with lot of other tool like Quickbook and Shopify
Cons: It's very Expansive , even more when you want to follow the lot number. it starts at 179$ per month, if you take the annual billing, which I don't recommend unless you know it very well , the monthly paiement starts at 199$ The solution I am using now cost 39$/month on a monthly paiement basis it's a big difference
Fatou S. · CEO · Consumer Goods · May 16, 2024
$7a
Pros: Before using Katana, I was doing everything manually. I can't express how reliant I have become on MRP software.
Cons: They have increased prices by 523% since we started using this service. Bugs are ever-present, and they take existing features away to put behind a behind a paywall.
Alan R. · CEO · Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing · April 9, 2024
Beautiful. Support is great, too, always helpful and fast to reply
Pros: I'm not sure what your situation is, but I was creating my POs and tracking how much of every component to order manually in Google Sheets. Yep, it was a pain. I tried a few competitor options, but they were designed in an awkward way; I needed to guess/lookup/read up. With Katana, my first day was already productive, and everything was intuitive. I even told my friend who is a UX/UI for Meta to go look at the only software that I like using (compared to the FB ads nightmare wormhole of dashboard:))
Cons: Direct integration with Amazon would be nice. The route they have rn is through another app and it's another subscription price
Anastasia V. · owner · Consumer Goods · March 27, 2024
horrible and I would never ever want to be in business with them again, they only see you as money bags.
Pros: It worked for what I was expecting, it kept track of the items I needed to produce custom embroidered items. It was able to track when I needed to re buy items from my suppliers.
Cons: $7b
Oscar R. · Director · Apparel & Fashion · March 14, 2024
Pros: Great user interface, very easily operable.
Cons: Pricing is getting worse. Basic functions disappear and appear later as a paid add on for hefty monthly fee.
Lukas H. · Director · Import and Export · March 9, 2024
Horrible. MRP systems are time consuming to implement. For them to take away functionality and SIGNIFICANTLY increase the price after the first year was ridiculous. Now we will be implementing a different MRP system. We feel cheated.
Pros: It seemed simple. It didn't work as originally sold, but they did improve it throughout the first year.
Cons: We THOUGHT it was going to be a good value. But after the first year, they took away functionality and doubled the price!
CAMILLA S. · owner · Food Production · February 21, 2024
Now at the money grabbing stage before they implode, would be my guess. Clunky at the best of times. We put up with quirks, bugs that were never going to get fixed and general major omissions (like lack of back up and undo) This company is being run like it's an open source "best effort" outfit, but charging premium monthly rates for a software that feels barely out of beta. Given how central MRP/ERP/etc is to our business, we will be looking for a different provider asap, as none of this inspires trust in what should be a long term partner
Pros: The user interface is pretty and nice to use, mostly The concepts of scheduling and general "idea" behind the katana system are good
Cons: $7c
Chris G. · CEO · Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing · February 12, 2024
Pros: $7d
Cons: Their extortionate pricing policies. Costs hiked fivefold over the last two years
Monne D. · Founder · Food & Beverages · January 24, 2024
Pros: Great inventory management software for the price.
Cons: Wish it worked better with other programs. We use Extensive for almost all other plugins. Also, wish it had a way to track cutting programs.
Matt G. · Product Engineer · Furniture · December 4, 2023
Pros: What i like the most about katana is Knowledge Base. it has answers to all questions and resourceful tutorial on how to manoeuvre the system.
Cons: I am still very new to the system and I have currently not come across anything i least like about Katana
Prosper K. · Systems and Projects Coordinator · Food & Beverages · October 1, 2023
This has been a very easy product to use - we came from a Netsuite operational backend but having a system that easily links to other products we use (Quickbooks, Shipping Platforms) was much easier to deploy.
Pros: The ease of use, as compared to larger MRP systems, helps keep the team on track.
Cons: There are some missing features - custom fields, tiered pricing, etc.
Alex S. · Head of Operations · Furniture · September 29, 2023
Ive tried lots of other systems - ugly ones, expensive ones, and completely confusing ones. Katana wins hands down. And without charging you lots of extra fees to do things like multiple locations.
Pros: Its very very easy to use. Having used other systems, like inFlow, it has refreshing clean visually cued interface. Its very satisfying to use.
Cons: Very little - I would ask why they dont allow non-stock items to be a thing (we cant be the only ones!) - we have to make up that we have 1000s of imaginary non-stock items to keep the system happy. But its a tiny weeny gripe and has very little bearing on anything.
Andrew S. · CEO · Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing · September 29, 2023
We're still in the implementation stage, but Katana has met the majority of our business requirements with ease. It's been easy to transfer and upload data into Katana and we're feeling very confident about go live. Customer support is outstanding and they pass all improvement suggestions up to their development team for review. They embrace continuous improvement similarly to our manufacturing floor.
Pros: The ease of building products and variants. Our products have a lot of variants, and Katana makes it very easy to manage them all simultaneously. The previous MRP system used required us to build a unique BOM for every variant, which took significant time.
Cons: Minimum order quantity feature. Ability to reject/second quality part of a manufacturing lot. Develop an easy way to see product list not broken down into variants. Have the ability to only show certain BOM items on the shop floor app. Consumables like glue and tape don't need to be shown.
Brad P. · Production Engineer · Textiles · September 8, 2023
So far the experience has been very good. I have had a few issues with the initial implementation fee which is mandatory and in my opinion expensive for what you get. I do receive some feedback, but sometimes it takes a while to receive it.
Pros: I loved the user interface and the ease of working with the system. The system is very intuitive and with the instructional videos you can pretty much pick up the basics very quickly. I love the way that you can upload information through Excel and the system is flexible with the upload. Also the seamless integration with Quickbooks online is very nice.
Cons: One of the features that is missing, but they are working on it, is sales forecasting by SKU. This would be a great feature to add as it will allow us to add our expected sales for each SKU and have the system forecast demand. Another issue is when you have a price rule for a client in QuickBooks Katana has no way to see this, so when the invoice is pushed to QuickBooks you have to go through each individual line to accept the price rule. Not a game changer, but a bit of a hassle.
Hanif M. · Director · Food Production · August 21, 2023
Overall, we have been very happy with the product. There are some features we would like to see implemented, and those have been passed onto to their support team. But the value has far exceeded the cost and we are excited to get completely rolled out soon!
Pros: The setup is quick and easy and the customer service is nothing short of excellent. We love the simple interface which makes it easy to train others on,. The Excel templates allow for bulk uploads of all of the required data categories which doesn't need to be uploaded manually.
Cons: It could be more circular in that you sometimes have to jump back and forth within the system to complete a task. The production operation feature should allow you to set a default number of labor hours per task so that it isn't required with each manufacturing order setup.
Brent T. · Production Manager · Machinery · August 16, 2023
inventory management
Pros: it was easy to set up the team helped me a lot
Cons: it was a easy set up i did not have anything i did not like
edward c. · manager · Wholesale · August 11, 2023
Good. bit of a learning curve
Pros: manufacturing and inventory management.integration with quick books
Cons: cannot move existing s.o. to quote or canceled status.
frank p. · OWNER · Wholesale · August 11, 2023
Customer service has been outstanding to help me learn features and problem solve. Very friendly and helpful!
Pros: The software is very easy to use and I like the automatic saving feature but also able to edit transactions as well.
Cons: I would like to be able to process payments through eCommerce in Katana, those need to be done manually.
Lisa T. · CFO · Food & Beverages · August 11, 2023
Pros: The set up and use of Katana is super easy and user friendly! The online resources they provide are incredibly helpful. I found the Katana Academy videos the most helpful.
Cons: Katana does not provide a way to "waste" products, however I know that Katana is currently working on implementing a program to do this. The only true complaint is that it doesn't support fractions. Our products are divided into 12 and when inputting the "recipes and boms" 1 is not divisible by 12 evenly. This makes us have to stock adjust to get proper inventory counts.
Shanon O. · Production Manager · Food Production · August 11, 2023
It is very good, it allows me to have a complete vision of my business and make informed decisions based on the updated data.
Pros: It's great because with this platform, I have the ability to efficiently manage my inventory, work orders, scheduling and tracking, very good all in one place.
Cons: I think they could improve is in the flexibility of customization. Although it offers a wide range of features, sometimes I would like to be able to further customize certain aspects according to the specific needs of my business.
Marina C. · President · Internet · August 3, 2023
Pros: The UX and UI of app. Literaly everyone n our team is able to work with Katana how it is simply.
Cons: Not very often but sometimes app kick me out and I have to log in again.
Marco Y. · CTO · Marketing and Advertising · March 27, 2023
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| SPC | 1 | 12 | - |
| Metal Fabrication | 1 | 13 | - |
| Food Manufacturing | 1 | 17 | - |
| Manufacturing Inventory Management | 1 | 18 | - |
| MRP | 1 | 21 | - |
| Order Fulfillment | 1 | 22 | - |
| Capacity Planning | 1 | 24 | - |
| Manufacturing Execution | 1 | 24 | - |
| Production Scheduling | 1 | 25 | Shortlist |
| Multi-Channel eCommerce | 2 | 9 | - |
| Inventory Control | 2 | 17 | - |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 27 | - |
| Order Management | 2 | 31 | - |
| Enterprise Resource Planning | 2 | 33 | - |
| Inventory Management | 2 | 41 | - |
| Warehouse Management | 2 | 41 | - |