Katana

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Stock is the heart of this product: real-time movement tracking, batches shown in first-in-first-out order with operators barred from picking expired ones, unique serial numbers with every adjustment recorded in the item's history with location and date, storage bins and multi-warehouse stock, bundles and kits resolved through bills of materials, and reorder points driven by forecast demand, safety stock and minimum order quantities. We found no public information on a stocktaking routine or a stated inventory valuation method, which is what keeps it off the top step. 1 2 4 8 9 10

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The browser-based Warehouse app pushes receiving tasks from purchase orders and picking and packing tasks from sales orders, works on any device with a camera for QR scanning, assigns tasks to the first operator who starts them, records who received or packed each order, and is meant to run the floor paperless. We found no public information on batch, wave or multi-order picking strategies, putaway suggestions, or pick, pack and error rates per user and shift, so the shift-management layer above the basics is undocumented. 3 10 11

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Parcels go out through named shipping integrations — Shippo, ShipStation and 2Ship — with tracking numbers held on the sales order and packing slips generated, and the vendor itself notes that shops on e-commerce platforms often let the platform handle shipping. Returns are genuinely handled inside the product: item-level reasons, flexible restocking, statuses from received to restocked, automatic Shopify return sync and QuickBooks credit notes. We found no public information on shipping rules, customs paperwork for non-EU destinations, or a self-service returns portal, and whether own carrier contracts apply is not said. 12 13 15

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I book forty pallets and three part loads a week and this is a different kind of tool — an inventory, warehouse and production system for small makers — so we found no public information on pallet, groupage or full and part truckload booking, forwarder quote comparison, stored freight rate tables, eCMR or digital delivery notes, freight invoice checking against agreed prices, or a CO2 figure per shipment. What the pages do show is a place to keep addresses and tracking references on B2B and EDI sales orders, a native 3PL connection whose inbound shipment and tracking view is listed as coming soon, and custom EDI and 3PL integrations built by the vendor's engineers on the Advantage plan. 4 13 15

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The connector list is real and named — Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, eBay, Amazon, QuickBooks Online and Xero, plus Zapier, Make and a 3PL connection — backed by an open API, per-user permissions over API keys and webhooks, real-time stock sync, automatic CRM order-import triggers, and Advantage engineers who build and maintain custom EDI, CRM and 3PL integrations. We found no public information on API rate limits or versioning, an ERP connector beyond accounting, or a documented export of orders, stock movements and shipment history at the end of the contract. 2 4 14 15

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The captured pages give different figures for where data lives: the privacy policy states the service is hosted in the EU with centralized EU databases, while the terms say systems and service providers may be located in the European Union, the United States and other jurisdictions, with Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework given as safeguards for transfers. In favour: the contracting entity Katana Technologies OÜ is named, an Article 28 data processing contract sits in the terms, AWS is the named host, and a SOC 2 Type II audit result is published. Against full transparency: the subprocessor list is only provided on request, and Google Analytics runs on the public site with an opt-out. 5 6 7

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A free plan at $0 with a 30-SKU cap and the Core plan "starting at $299 per month" are public, and the terms are unusually open about structure: a base fee plus per-sales-order usage fees on an exponential decay pricing model, one location included with each extra location charged as posted on the website, monthly to annual billing commitments with auto-renewal, fees exclusive of taxes, payable in advance and non-refundable. But we found no public information on the actual per-order rates, the location fee amount or the price of the Warehouse Management add-on, and the Advantage plan is custom-priced, so I cannot compute a year's cost from the public pages. 2 4 6 11

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