Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Katana with great customer service"
4/5
What do you like best about Katana Cloud Inventory?

Very easy to navigate and user friendly. The configuration and modules are very easy to navigate. They are quick to respond to inquiries and accept feedback and feature request readily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Katana Cloud Inventory?

Provide more features, such as being able to consume serial numbers in a manufacturing order. There needs to be more control on permissions such as the ability to set permissions based on roles. It'll be great to have statuses on products so we can differentiate between a product in development and a product that is in store and ready to be sold Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robin G.
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Robin G.
Managing Director
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Took us to a new level"
4/5
What do you like best about Katana Cloud Inventory?

For us at www.musheez.eu we have to track batches of premium organic mushroom extracts. traceability is a key requirement for our clients. The simple interface and funtionalities (once you learn how to use them) means we have been able to scale our business without adding xtra personnel and worrying if we missed something.

Client support is very good. Integartion with Qb, Shopify and Woocomerce is simple and works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Katana Cloud Inventory?

It's expensive for a small company like ours but not much we can do about that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kurt Strang of Katana Cloud Inventory

Thanks for taking the time to review us Robin, I appreciate it!

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Milan N.
Automation engineer, manufacturing manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Useful and helpful platform for manufacturing, with amazing support team."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Katana Cloud Inventory?

Easy to use, fast responding support, easy access to informations, a lot of new features. Easy way to implement new things, daily use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Katana Cloud Inventory?

Anyone from the team can make changes (creating/removing MO's,SO's...) without mark who did it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Manufacturing
UM
Verified User in Manufacturing
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Since we've been using Katana our warehousing and production has been much more efficient."
4/5
What do you like best about Katana Cloud Inventory?

Materials Recipes. Shopify integration. Relatively easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Katana Cloud Inventory?

There should be more user defined usage of program updates based on need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luka A.
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Luka A.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Powerful inventory management system with Shopify integration"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Katana Cloud Inventory?

The ability to track every part, large or small, that goes into our products is extremely valuable to us. The user interface is simple but straightforward, and their documentation is written very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Katana Cloud Inventory?

We wish the onboarding process allowed for more experimentation as we learned the system. For example, we wanted to start from scratch by deleting/re-importing our Shopify orders but were unable to do so. We later learned that once orders are deleted, there is no way of recovering them, even after re-importing UNLESS you completely wipe the entire account and start from complete scratch. Fortunately, however, Katana allows us to export data into spreadsheets, which we then used to populate templates. It would be nice if we could directly export/import all data for a backup type of scenario without having to restructure spreadsheets, but we're happy the option was there nonetheless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kurt Strang of Katana Cloud Inventory

Hi Luka,

Thanks kindly for your review!

Happy to hear you're getting good value out of Katana and hope that continues as you use it more and more for inventory management.

Have a great week ahead!

Kurt

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Stuart D.
Director
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The cleanest and simplest MPR on the market"
5/5
What do you like best about Katana Cloud Inventory?

We reviewed multiple MRP/ERP systems and very quickly concluded that Katana was by far the easiest to use, which was a number 1 priority. If a system is overcomplicated or difficult to use, then the users and management won't see the benefit of it. Katana ticked all the boxes for us, and we were delighted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Katana Cloud Inventory?

A dedicated Pipedrive integration would be the cherry on the cake for us. Plus an ability to have 'unlimited' stock products for raw materials/bulk items that we have a direct supply of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Manufacturing
UM
Verified User in Manufacturing
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Katana is an excellently designed application for easier functioning of your business"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Katana Cloud Inventory?

Katana is versatile and you can easily adapt each segment to your business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Katana Cloud Inventory?

I have nothing special to suggest in this field, no program is perfect, so it is always necessary to improve it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Lorna B.
Managing Director
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Perfect tool to meet my small manufacturing business needs"
5/5
What do you like best about Katana Cloud Inventory?

The system is intuitive and user-friendly - I like the logical steps to build the initial material, product and BOM data sets (and the tutorial videos to provide easy to follow step-by-step guidance). Katana provides functionality to deal with highly customised products (without the need to create product SKUs for every possible variant combination) - given the majority of my products are customised, this feature is extremely important to me. Easy integration with Shopify and Xero are also important features. And finally, the technical support and sales teams are super helpful and easily accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Katana Cloud Inventory?

Additional functionality / features that would be helpful to me include: (a) the ability to integrate Katana and Shopify at the material level as well as the product level [so that material availability could be reflected via Shopify and the front-end website], (b) the ability for Katana to identify a product as being 'out of stock' if one of the materials in the BOM is out of stock - and for this information to be reflected back in Shopify (once the systems are integrated). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kurt Strang of Katana Cloud Inventory

Thanks for the detailed review Lorna!

What next to improve on the Shopify app is very helpful, we'll keep trying to make it more and more useful on our end in 2023

Verified User in Chemicals
UC
Verified User in Chemicals
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Frustrating but with great potential"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Katana Cloud Inventory?

The visual queueing of manufacturing jobs is a brilliant feature. It is easy to schedule work and plan for materials to arrive as they become needed. The ability to generate manufacturing orders from the sales order page is super easy to use also. Stock adjustments are simple also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Katana Cloud Inventory?

Katana is LAGGY. The lag is acceptable at first but becomes frustrating when you are in it for hours per day.

It also lacks some capabilities, like multiple sales price levels for each stock item and the ability to make various items within the same manufacturing job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EK
Emre K.
CEO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great tool for manufacturing and great support"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Katana Cloud Inventory?

Katana matches most of our needs as an electronics manufacturer. In areas where it comes short, many of these features are already scheduled for the future, and the support team also provides alternate solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Katana Cloud Inventory?

Serial number tracking is a critical feature for us that Katana is missing, and we are doing it manually for now. But it's good to know that it will be implemented within 2023. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kurt Strang of Katana Cloud Inventory

Thanks for the review Emre!

Serial number tracking is one of the top features we're building for in 2023, we know how much it's needed and can't wait for its release to help all the teams just like yours that need it :)