Katana Review: Pricing, Pros, Cons & Alternatives

Overview

Katana is a cloud inventory and manufacturing platform headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, with staff across North America, Europe and New Zealand. The company says its co-founders raised US$700,000 in April 2017 and that the product went live by the end of that year; it reports more than US$51 million raised in total, more than 1,500 customer businesses and nearly 100 employees^[4].

Katana is built for businesses that make what they sell. It tracks stock across warehouses, third-party logistics providers and in-transit inventory with batch, lot and serial tracing, and adds production jobs linked to multi-level bills of materials with subassemblies and routings, capacity-based scheduling and a shop-floor app for logging task time. Costing updates material availability and cost as production moves, including work done by co-manufacturers. On the sales side it consolidates orders from Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce and BigCommerce, handles wholesale orders and backorders, and drafts replenishment suggestions from sales history and supplier lead times. Accounting integrations are QuickBooks Online and Xero, and Katana offers an open API and MCP access for AI assistants^[5].

Pricing changed to a two-tier model: a free plan with unlimited users but a 30-SKU limit (unlimited SKUs for the first 15 days), and an Advantage plan sold on a custom annual contract after a scoping call^[3]. Buyers who have outgrown 30 SKUs therefore cannot compare costs without talking to sales.

Katana features

Multi-level BOMs with subassemblies and routings
Capacity-based production scheduling
Shop-floor app for task time
Batch, lot and serial tracing
Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, BigCommerce sync
QuickBooks Online and Xero integration
Production orders and bills of materials
Multi-location inventory

Katana pricing

Free: US$0, no card required, unlimited users, up to 30 SKUs (unlimited for 15 days). Advantage: custom pricing on an annual contract, unlimited users, with everything included rather than sold as add-ons.

Katana strengths and limitations

Strengths

Manufacturing and inventory in one product
Unlimited users on both plans
Modern e-commerce and accounting integrations
API and MCP access
Free plan for small catalogues
Unlimited users

Limitations

Paid plan is quote-only
Free plan limited to 30 SKUs
Annual contract on Advantage
Less suited to pure distribution with no production
No built-in general ledger
Paid pricing is quote-only

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Headquarters	Tallinn, Estonia
Went live	2017
Funding raised	US$51m+
Customers	1,500+ (company figure)
Employees	Nearly 100 (company figure)
Free plan	Yes (30 SKUs)

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