n-Katana runs your shop floor. We connect it to everything on either side of it.
Katana (Katana Cloud Manufacturing) is cloud manufacturing software for small and mid-sized manufacturers: live inventory tracking, bills of materials, and production scheduling that gives you a real-time view of what's in stock and what's on the floor. It ships with native connections to channels like Shopify and WooCommerce and accounting platforms like QuickBooks Online and Xero. We build the connections Katana doesn't ship natively, and the custom logic those prebuilt ones don't cover, so orders, inventory, and finished goods stay in sync without someone checking three systems by hand.
What we build on top of Katana
Katana's native storefront connectors cover the common cases well. If you also sell through a wholesale portal, an EDI feed, or a marketplace it doesn't plug into out of the box, we build that order intake so it still lands in Katana as a normal sales order, not a separate spreadsheet someone reconciles at the end of the week.
When a work order completes, Katana knows the production side of the story, the materials consumed and the finished goods produced. We build the handoff into accounting so that completion also posts the inventory valuation and cost of goods sold correctly, especially for multi-entity or multi-currency setups that go beyond what Katana's native accounting sync was built for.
Reorder points in Katana tell you what's low. We connect that signal to actual supplier workflows, generating a draft purchase order or notifying a supplier automatically, instead of someone checking a dashboard and typing up a PO by hand.
Because Katana's API is genuinely built for this, we also pull production, inventory, and margin data into whatever reporting tool leadership already uses, so the numbers don't live only inside Katana itself.
A Real-World Scenario: Small Batch Manufacturer
A contract manufacturer running Katana for production, selling through its own site and two wholesale accounts.
Before
Wholesale orders arrive by email or a buyer's portal that Katana doesn't connect to. Someone re-keys each one into Katana as a sales order, checks it against current stock, and separately emails the buyer a confirmation once it's scheduled for production.
After
Wholesale orders land in Katana automatically as soon as they arrive, checked against live stock and production capacity, with a confirmation sent back to the buyer without anyone touching the order in between.
Running production through Katana and still bridging the gaps by hand?
Tell us which order source, supplier step, or accounting entry isn't actually connected to Katana yet. And if the real bottleneck is somewhere else in the business entirely, that's fine too, we automate whatever's manual, not just the production side.
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