Why Choose Katana over Fishbowl?
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.
Get expert support when you need it
When you need assistance, we’re there for you. Our 24-hour support answers in under an hour. No cumbersome tickets and waiting for hours or days to get a response.
Katana wins in 87% of review categories versus Fishbowl
According to customers, Katana is 4 times faster to go live, support you better, and get to positive ROI almost 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 | 4 months |
Average ROI (months)* | 9 months | 17 months |
Users | Unlimited | 2 users included, additional users at extra cost |
Integrations | Unlimited | Only accounting integrations included, others cost extra |

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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.
Inventory management
Get real-time inventory insights of all your items and optimize your inventory levels based on demand.
Purchase management
Issue purchase orders for supplies and materials in Katana that are delivered directly to your warehouse or contract manufacturer.
Sales order management
Consolidate all your online and offline sales channels in one view with AI-powered automation for order creation and real-time sales insights.
Planning and forecasting
Make better data-driven decisions as Katana automates your inventory planning — using historical data to predict future demand.
Production management
Optimize your production and decrease lead times based on your bill of materials and operations data.
Cloud accounting
Get your inventory and accounting data in sync to better understand your business’s finances.
Warehouse management
Our Warehouse add-on provides all the tools and real-time insights to improve picking routes and manage receiving, mobile scanning, and printing — all from a mobile device.
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


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