--- description: Discover the benefits and disadvantages of Katana Cloud Inventory. Learn the software price, see the description, and read the most helpful reviews for UK business users. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Katana Cloud Inventory Pricing, Cost & Reviews - Capterra UK 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Inventory Management Software](/directory/30006/inventory-management/software) > [Katana Cloud Inventory](/software/172888/katana-mrp) # Katana Cloud Inventory Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/172888/katana-mrp Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/172888/katana-mrp?page=2) > Katana's cloud platform offers live inventory, production, accounting, and reporting for businesses to make the right decisions. ​ > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 171 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Katana Cloud Inventory? Manufacturers, retailers, and others looking to utilize the best software on the market for manufacturing, sales, and accounting and run it all from one user-friendly cloud inventory platform. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 171 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Katana Cloud Inventory - **Location**: Tallinn, Estonia - **Founded**: 2016 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Other (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: Start with our Free Plan to explore Katana on a smaller setup, or choose the Core Plan for day-to-day ops management you can customize for your workflow. Visit our website for a full pricing overview. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Albania, Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria and 99 more ## Features - Accounting - Alerts/Notifications - BOM Creation - Barcode Recognition - Barcoding/RFID - Billing & Invoicing - Bills of Material - Change Management - Channel Management - Cost Tracking - Customisable Reports - Customization - Data Import/Export - Delivery Management - Expiration Date Management - Financial Management - For Manufacturers - Integrated Business Operations - Inventory Control - Inventory Management - Inventory Tracking - Item Management - Label Templates - Lot Tracking - Marketplace Integration - Material Requirements Planning - Multi-Channel Marketing - Order Fulfillment - Order Management - Order Tracking - Parts Management - Performance Metrics - Price and Cost Calculations - Product Identification - Production Tracking - Purchase Order Management - Quality Control - Real-Time Analytics - Real-Time Data - Real-Time Monitoring - Reorder Management - Reporting & Statistics - Reporting/Analytics - Scheduling - Serial Number Tracking - Shipping Management - Status Tracking - Task Management - Work Order Management - eCommerce Management ... and 43 more features ## Integrations (32 total) - 2Ship - BigCommerce - Easy Insight - Ecwid - Extensiv Integration Manager - HubSpot CRM - JIKKO - Make - Online Auction System - Pipe17 - Pipedrive - PrestaShop - Prospect CRM - QuickBooks Online - QuickBooks Online Advanced ... and 17 more integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Inventory Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/30006/inventory-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Chemical Manufacturing Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/32735/chemical-manufacturing/software) - [Food Manufacturing Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/32569/food-%26-beverage-manufacturing-erp/software) - [Production Scheduling Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/30030/production-scheduling/software) - [Inventory Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/30006/inventory-management/software) - [Warehouse Management System](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/30005/warehouse-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Wasp Inventory](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/155799/inventorycloud) — 4.3/5 (358 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Our Experience with Katana MRP – Why We Left After 6 Years" — 1.0/5 > **Andrew** | *5 February 2026* | Health, Wellness & Fitness | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **Pros**: Decent user interface and basic manufacturing features, with adequate inventory tracking and production planning for small teams. > > **Cons**: The company has become increasingly difficult to work with, shows little understanding of small manufacturers’ realities, enforces punitive order-based pricing, changes terms mid-contract, and prioritizes larger customers over long-time users. > > We were early adopters of Katana MRP, using it as our primary manufacturing resource planning system for over six years. In the beginning, Katana delivered exactly what we needed - solid functionality, reasonable pricing, and an easy-to-use interface that worked well for a small manufacturer like us with modest sales order volume. Initially, the pricing was fair and manageable. But once Katana began taking on outside investment and aggressively scaling, things started to change. Over time, they revamped their pricing model multiple times. At first it was tied to relatively simple metrics like number of users, but later it shifted to limits based on sales order line items, then to sales orders and gross merchandise value (GMV). What sounded sophisticated in their marketing quickly became a huge headache for us: as a small shop selling mostly items around $10 each, our high order count, not our actual revenue, automatically bumped us into higher pricing tiers. So we ended up paying almost the same as companies doing $50 million+ in annual sales, despite using a fraction of the features and resources. We’ve also experienced price changes mid-subscription period without meaningful notice, and being forced into annual negotiations simply to keep our plan. Year after year, it became clear that the company didn’t care about smaller customers anymore: their strategy seems squarely aimed at upmarket customers with big order volume and deep pockets - which pits small manufacturers like us at a disadvantage. Frankly, the model feels punitive, not proportional. If your business sells a lot of small-ticket orders, you get punished with pricing far beyond the value you actually consume - and that’s simply not sustainable for a real small manufacturer. In the end, after dealing with repeated increasing costs and painfully going around in circles with account reps who didn't take the time to understand our business, we pulled the plug and took the time and effort to migrate to a different MRP that met all our requirements. It is faster, easier to use, and roughly ¼ of the cost of Katana’s current pricing. That switch has been night and day for our team - not only financially but also operationally. On the plus side, Katana made it easy for us to export our data and we performed the data migration and cut-over to the new system entirely in-house. Bottom line: Katana may still work for some companies, especially larger, growing SMBs with high-priced items and few orders, but for small manufacturers with many sales orders and modest item prices, their current pricing strategy simply doesn’t make sense anymore. ----- ### "Good offering" — 3.0/5 > **Erik** | *11 April 2026* | Machinery | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: Fairly easy to use and navigate. The UI is well designed and easy to use with good features and UI. Support is good. > > **Cons**: The pricing is expensive and the cancellation policy is terrible. Essentially it is 60 days to cancel. > > Overall good experience. There is a learning curve though the UI is good and layed out well. Generally, performs well ----- ### "The goldilocks inventory software" — 5.0/5 > **Tim** | *24 December 2024* | Construction | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Katana provided the right level of specificity for us. It wasn't too much where it overwhelming to get setup, but it was enough to track everything thing we needed. > > **Cons**: Honestly the hardest part of Katana for us was getting correct daily counts from employees. > > Katana was the goldilocks inventory solution for our manufacturing company. It wasn't too much and it wasn't too little, it was just right. I was able to create our product recipes and input all of our sku's relatively easily and get us onboarded quickly. It allowed us to see shortages earlier and remedy them before they became issues. Saved us time and money. ----- ### "Stay Away from Katana" — 1.0/5 > **Fabien** | *5 July 2024* | Health, Wellness & Fitness | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **Cons**: Katana is one of these SAAS that looks pretty and attractive on the surface only to hide the worst possible customer policy, pricing plans and billing methods i have encountered in 15 years of professionnal digital experience. We are a small size company making ±1.5M€ in revenues. We choose Katana in 2021 as the functionalities at the time seemed to match our needs. The price was decent (199$ a month) and despite we felts like it was already quite a budget (±2400$ a year), we decided to subscribe. For a few month, things have been relatively fine despite frequents technical issues (front end lags, data not updated, locked order status, ...). Then came reality. Without a warning, Katana first increased the subscription to 349$. Ouch. You just lost 1800$ overnight. We really didn't appreciate that but all the manufacturing data of our company was inside Katana, our employees were trained and used to the software, so we swallowed the pill. A few month later, the subscription was up to 899$. Yes you read that right. Again, without a warning, without getting approval, they just start to bill your payment card with 899$ every month. You just lost another 7800$ overnight (per year, 23400$ for 3 years usage). Right there we have understood Katana trapped us. Katana's company hook you up with a sense of affordability only to charge astronomical price hikes whenever they feel like it. Despite the fact that this is highly irregular and most certainly illegal and fraudulent at least in Europe, the break of trust and the leverage made over the customer data is disgusting. Wait, it's not over yet \! Once you decided enough is enough and you can't give your data and your trust to a company acting like a MAFIA organisation, you migrate to another software (i really recommande MRPEasy for those wanting to leave or looking to a safe solution), and you cancel your subscription. And surprise (or not) \! Katana tries by any mean to charge you with another 1 month subscription (899$) after your cancel it. An absolute disgraceful method to squeeze any $ left in your wallet. The reality is that Katana is an highly unprofitable company established in Estonia that lost more than 7.5M$ for just 3.5M$ of revenues in 2022 (accounts are public, go check) and they desperately need to rebalance their accounts. They do not have that much customers, so they decided to go Kamikaze and raise prices until something breaks. Obviously, this is exactly the kind of chaotic experience you want to avoid to your company and your staff. Any service looking remotely unsafe should be kept far away from you manufacturing process and Katana definitely is one of them. I am not the only one with that experience, check out the other reviews on Capterra. (check how they will copy/paste a generic bullshit answer in the reply section, it will give you a sense of their level of concern ^^) > > Stay away from this software. There are plenty on the market that won't try to rob you. ----- ### "Met our needs at beginning, as needs grew Katana team listened and added features" — 4.0/5 > **Lisa** | *6 February 2020* | Retail | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: The ability to use Resources as a way to assign a specific person to each task so I can see who is working on what step of the manufacturing process and the allotted time they are provided for the task. This year we went from contract labor/paid-per-piece to employees/hourly-wage and Katana has made this a much smoother transition then it could have been. Having both "cost-per-piece" for assembly of items as well as "cost-per-minute" has given us the ability to compare former payment procedures with what to expect per hour from employees. > > **Cons**: There are a variety of tasks that were unable to be done when we began using Katana in January 2019 but I am thrilled to say that most of them have been developed. The developers listen and are very attentive to requests, bug reports, and ideas and so despite the fact that some of the features were not available (exporting reports, importing recipes, bulk print MOs/pick lists, etc.) they have added these and the software continues to grow. The next feature I'd love to see is the ability to have a product photo attached to each product that prints out an image with the MO. Also, we have some items "on hold" (not sent to distribution center yet) and we use Resources to specify ONHOLD-BIN221 etc. to know the status of any particular SKU completed. We'd prefer not to use different locations, but rather have the ability to add a couple more "status" options. Either a misc or a custom. For now, everything on hold gets marked BLOCKED status and then the Resource is used to say it's on hold in whatever bin. > > We maintain about 1500-2000 SKUS and all assemblers work at home. Some do different steps, returning work weekly and then having it distributed to the next person. Giving every MO an actual number has kept every bag of parts and supplies organized. We can track who has it, where it's at in the manufacturing process, etc. Even though we have used Katana since January, it's the last 3 months that it's really proven it's value to us. We do not use it for order fulfillment, just in-house manufacturing. But it's allowed us to prep for holiday season from July forward and stay completely organized and efficient. No more "where-did-it-go" or "how-many-have-we-prepped" frantic moments. We began the year knowing we needed a software that "fit" our company's size and our needs. Katana has proven invaluable for our company this year. We are currently doing our first complete inventory and we hope to add these numbers to Katana in 2020 and continue to improve our efficiency. ----- Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/172888/katana-mrp?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/172888/katana-mrp) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ja | | | ko | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pl | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | | sv | | | tr | | ----- ## Structured Data