# Katana > Inventory and production software for makers and manufacturers Katana is cloud inventory software for manufacturers and makers who turn materials into finished goods. It tracks raw materials and products across locations, plans production with bills of materials and work orders, handles sales and purchase orders, and traces batches and serial numbers. A free account covers up to 30 SKUs; anything larger is a custom, sales-led Advantage contract. - **Category:** Inventory Management - **Made by:** Katana Technologies OÜ (since 2017) - **Website:** https://katanamrp.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Katana has a free plan. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free plan for up to 30 SKUs with unlimited users, integrations and locations, every Katana feature and API access. Support is the AI assistant and knowledge base only. - **Free trial:** A new free account can use unlimited SKUs for 15 days, no card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Up to 30 SKUs, unlimited users, integrations and inventory locations, all features and API access, with self-serve setup. | | Advantage | Custom | Unlimited SKUs on one annual contract that includes guided setup, custom integrations and reports, a success manager and 24/7 live support. | Read from https://katanamrp.com/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Katana before buying. ## Key features - **Production planning:** Multi-level bills of materials, routings and work orders, with materials assigned to orders and finished goods returned to stock when production ends. - **Live inventory across locations:** Stock for products and materials across warehouses, production sites and partner locations, with transfers and a real-time availability planner. - **Batch and serial traceability:** Track lot numbers, serial numbers and expiry dates from supplier to customer to answer recalls and audits. - **Sales and purchase orders:** Orders from Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce and wholesale in one list, purchase orders with landed costs, price lists and multiple currencies. - **Warehouse app and barcode scanning:** A browser-based warehouse app for receiving, picking, packing and stocktakes with a phone camera or a rugged scanner. - **AI replenishment and MCP:** AI purchase-order suggestions based on demand history, and an MCP connection to query and update Katana from Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. ## Good for - Small manufacturers that make their own products from raw materials - Shopify brands that also run production in-house or with co-manufacturers - Food, cosmetics and other businesses that must trace batches ## Worth knowing - No price is published beyond the free plan: Advantage is quoted after a scoping call and sold as one annual contract. - The free plan stops at 30 SKUs, counting each product or material variant, and has no live support. - There are no native phone apps; the warehouse app runs in a mobile browser at wh.katanamrp.com. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Katana is built for makers: bills of materials, work orders and batch tracking, with stock kept live across every location and your Shopify or Amazon orders pulling from it. The free plan has every feature but stops at 30 SKUs. Past that there's no price list, just a quote for a yearly Advantage contract. - **Value for money: C.** A shop with an online store will pass the free plan's 30 SKUs fast, since every variant and material counts. After that it's Advantage, quoted after a scoping call on one yearly contract, so there's no monthly figure to set against other tools. With no published price, it sits in the middle. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free for up to 30 SKUs with every feature, unlimited users and the API, plus 15 days of unlimited SKUs with no card. A real way to try it, but 30 SKUs is a cap most makers will hit, and support on free is the AI assistant only. - **Features: B.** Multi-level bills of materials, routings and work orders, live stock across locations, batch and serial tracking, sales and purchase orders and AI reorder suggestions. That's the whole job for a maker. There are no native phone apps, but the browser warehouse app handles scanning. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record to go by. Before it earns its keep you'll set up materials, bills of materials, routings and locations, and the paid plan comes with guided setup for a reason. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no native phone apps. It connects to Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, QuickBooks Online, Xero, ShipStation and HubSpot, has an API, and links to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini over MCP. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Katana's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among inventory management tools - Katana's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 4 of the 11 other inventory management tools we grade, and level with 4. - It stands best on features (B, above 2 of 11) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/inventory ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Katana you could make: inventory. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. - You could make: Inventory: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Scanning barcodes with a phone camera or a scanner. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Shopify, Amazon and WooCommerce among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, QuickBooks Online, Xero, ShipStation, HubSpot **Tags:** Inventory, Barcode scanning, Public API, AI features ## Alternatives - [Stocksmith](https://toolgpa.com/tools/craftybase): Materials, recipes and costing for makers and small manufacturers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/craftybase-vs-katana) - [Fishbowl](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fishbowl): Inventory and manufacturing software built around QuickBooks and Xero. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fishbowl-vs-katana) - [Cin7](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cin7): Inventory software for wholesale and multichannel product sellers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cin7-vs-katana) - [Unleashed](https://toolgpa.com/tools/unleashed): Inventory, purchasing and assembly software for wholesalers and makers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/katana-vs-unleashed) - [inFlow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/inflow): Inventory, orders and barcoding for wholesalers and small warehouses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/inflow-vs-katana) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://katanamrp.com/pricing/ - https://katanamrp.com/ - https://katanamrp.com/integrations/ - https://katanamrp.com/about-us/ - https://katanamrp.com/features/warehouse-management/ - https://support.katanamrp.com/en/articles/8721732-recommended-devices-for-using-the-warehouse-app Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/katana Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).