Why Choose Katana over Cin7?
See how Katana gives modern product businesses the visibility, control, and scalability they need—without the complexity or cost of legacy ERPs.
What makes Katana different?
If you’re managing raw materials, BOMs, or production and sales across multiple channels, not every system is built for your reality. Katana is purpose-built for product businesses that need flexibility and speed—without sacrificing inventory accuracy or operational control.
Don’t lose control over your bill of materials
Gain full control over your product composition, ensuring accurate BOM management and protecting product ownership, even as your business scales.
Don’t let rapid growth overwhelm your operations
Katana’s intuitive system enables you to keep up with increasing demand, staff, and revenue, streamlining operations without overwhelming your team.
Avoid delays with inefficient production planning
Achieve accurate production schedules, with real-time visibility into every step of your operations, and the flexibility to plan or subcontract manufacturing operations as needed.
Katana wins in 77% of review categories versus Cin7
According to customers, Katana is 3 times faster to implement, supports you better, and gets to positive ROI more than twice as fast. Here are a few more reasons why you should choose us.
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| Average Go Live Time (months)* | 1 month | 3 months |
| Average ROI (months)* | 6 months | 14 months |
| Users | Unlimited | Limited seats per plan, additional users at extra cost |
| Integrations | Unlimited | Limited # of integrations per plan, additional ones cost extra |
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Katana vs Cin7: How Katana stands out
Reviewers rate Katana higher than Cin7 across the board: faster setup, better support, simpler admin, and more.
Katana Features
Get your products to customers faster
Katana supports your workflows, regardless of industry, with the features and seamless integrations needed to do business your way.
Take control of your inventory in real time
Katana’s Smart Inventory provides live, connected insights across all channels and locations — helping you maintain the correct stock levels. Track items in real-time, forecast demand with confidence, and manage costs without end-of-month surprises.
Manufacturing you can see, control, and deliver
Gain complete visibility into your entire production process. Plan capacity, allocate resources, and ensure materials are ready when needed. Live shop floor updates enable you to identify and resolve issues promptly, keeping production on track.
Stay ahead with demand-led purchasing
Track everything that’s purchased and trace its journey from supplier to production. Katana maintains a comprehensive record to support compliance, simplify audits, and facilitate prompt responses to recalls, strengthening trust in your company.
Reliably move stock in and out of warehouses
Supply your team with mobile access to real-time tasks, barcode scanning, and role-based views. The Warehouse App ensures that receiving, picking, packing, and transfers are completed accurately and on time, keeping inventory reliable and customers happy.
Seamless ecommerce inventory management across all your channels
Connect sales channels, such as Shopify, Amazon, or WooCommerce, to Katana to ensure that all orders sync automatically. Eliminate worrying about double entries, lost orders, or messy spreadsheets — just accurate, up-to-date data across every channel.
1500+
customers worldwide
Overall, my experience with Katana has been really, really great.
Alexander Blanchard
Operations Coordinator at Delta Development Team
Revenue has gone up because we manage more orders without hiring more staff.
Simon Bedding
Managing Director at Sylmasta
Customer support is very responsive and wants you to succeed as a user.
Nadia Hussain
Supply Chain Manager at Raw Coffee Company
If I didn’t have Katana, I would be drowning in spreadsheets, which would all break at some point.
Lisa Diep
Chief Operating Officer at Peace Collective
Everything is integrated, making for effective company-wide resource planning and control.
Danielle Louw
Production Manager at CT LAB
Our turnaround of taking orders to manufacturing and to then dispatching them has gone from 7-10 days to 2-3 days.
Jeff M.
Managing Director
Found Surface scales textile manufacturing with Katana
Hornby Organic improves production efficiency by 100%
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Frequently asked questions
Katana and Cin7 both serve growing product businesses, but reviewers rate Katana higher on ease of use, ease of admin, ease of setup, quality of support, and product direction. Katana also includes unlimited users and integrations on every plan, where Cin7 charges more as you grow. For businesses that need deeper customization, Katana pairs you with a dedicated team to map your workflows, build to them – including custom reports and dashboards -, and maintain your system as it changes.
Not for most businesses. With Cin7, pricing climbs with each user, order, or integration. Premium support and API access also cost extra. Katana gives you unlimited users, unlimited integrations, and support on every plan, with no hidden upsells.
Yes. Katana includes unlimited users and integrations on every plan, both of which cost extra with Cin7 after your plan’s limits. Support is included at every tier, and reviewers rate Katana higher on ease of use, admin, setup, support, and product direction. Switching is faster than most teams expect and a dedicated Solutions Engineer guides you throughout the entire process. Most businesses go live in under six weeks, some in days.
Yes. Katana covers core product business workflows like inventory, purchasing, manufacturing, and order management right out of the box. If you need deeper customization, Katana pairs you with a dedicated team to map your workflows, build to them – including custom dashboards and reports -, and maintain your system as it changes.
Katana includes 24/7 support from the Core plan up, with SLA-backed maintenance and a dedicated Customer Success Manager on Advantage. G2 reviewers rate Katana’s support quality at 91%, compared with 82% for Cin7.
Yes. Katana’s onboarding includes several layers of support built to guarantee a smooth transition process:
- A dedicated Solutions Engineer who guides you through setup at your own pace, with live calls, emails, and learning materials
- Hands-on workflow mapping and data migration to match Katana’s setup to how your business runs
- Individualized help configuring your ecommerce and accounting integrations
- Team training across purchasing, sales, inventory, and reporting before you go live