Katana is cloud inventory and manufacturing software for product businesses. Free plan up to 30 SKUs; Advantage plan has custom pricing. See features.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Katana is cloud inventory management software for product businesses. It is built for companies that sell, assemble, or manufacture products and need one place to see stock, orders, purchasing, and production. The company describes it as an operating system for multi-channel commerce, with real-time inventory control behind every sale.
According to its site, more than 1,500 product businesses use Katana. The company is headquartered in Tallinn, with staff across North America, Europe, and New Zealand. Its stated aim is to make complex tasks simple, so teams do not lose key data or watch their numbers drift out of sync.
Katana acts as the central record for stock. Orders from channels such as Shopify, Amazon, wholesale, and retail flow into the system, and inventory updates as sales, purchases, and production happen. Teams can see what is in stock, what is committed, and what is arriving across every location.
Production runs through the same data. Bills of materials define assemblies, work orders consume materials as tasks progress, and finished goods return to stock. Purchasing and forecasting draw on live inventory, production, and sales numbers, and integrations or the open API keep outside tools such as accounting software aligned.
Inventory features include real-time visibility, automated stock movements, multilocation support, barcode-enabled workflows, and batch, lot, serial, and expiry tracking. Order management adds omnichannel sync, kits and bundles, price lists, multicurrency support, and added costs for landed cost calculations.
Manufacturing features include BOMs and subassemblies, a shop floor app, manufacturing cost calculations, make-to-stock and make-to-order workflows, and contract manufacturing. Warehouse tools cover receiving to packing. Katana MCP also lets teams query and update inventory records from Claude or ChatGPT after a short setup.
Katana is cloud inventory management software for product businesses. Teams use it to track stock, manage sales and purchase orders, and run production from one system while selling across multiple locations and channels.
Katana has a Free plan at $0 with no card required, limited to 30 SKUs. The Advantage plan uses custom pricing under one annual contract after the team scopes your needs. No fixed paid price is published.
Yes. The Free plan includes up to 30 SKUs, unlimited users, integrations, and inventory locations, all features, API access, and an AI assistant and Knowledge Base for support. The site also mentions testing unlimited SKUs for 15 days.
Named integrations include Shopify, Amazon, QuickBooks Online, and HubSpot, and customer stories mention Xero and Shiptheory. Katana also offers an open API, partner and community solutions, and Katana MCP for Claude and ChatGPT.
Yes. It supports bills of materials, subassemblies, a shop floor app, make-to-stock and make-to-order workflows, contract manufacturing, and manufacturing cost calculations.
Yes. Katana tracks lots, serial numbers, and expiry dates from supplier to customer, which the site says helps businesses stay audit-ready and respond to compliance requests.
The site's comparison says Katana can be up and running in 6 weeks, and the pricing page says most Advantage teams are live in a matter of weeks. A customer story reports one team fully set up in 2 hours.
Katana is aimed at growing product businesses that sell, assemble, or manufacture goods across several channels and locations, including multi-channel brands, manufacturers, hybrid businesses, and regulated industries.