Why Choose Katana over Unleashed?
The best Unleashed Software alternative for ecommerce and multichannel sellers, tailored to how you work.
What makes Katana the best Unleashed Software alternative?
See how Katana gives ecommerce and multichannel product businesses one system built around their workflows, and how it compares with Unleashed inventory software.
Sync every sales channel automatically
Connect channels like Shopify and Amazon, and orders flow into Katana as they happen. Stock updates with each sale, and your team works from current numbers, every time.
Plan and track production, in-house or outsourced
Set capacity, assign resources, and keep your team in the loop with live updates from the shop floor app. Send orders to co-packers or contract manufacturers, and track what goes out and what’s coming back, all in the same place as your orders and inventory.
Get expert help at every step
Our experts guide your setup through live calls, emails, and learning materials. After go-live, our support team is available 24/7 to answer your questions.
Katana is rated 4.4 on G2 vs Unleashed’s 4.0
G2 reviewers rate Katana higher overall than Unleashed, and especially high for support: Katana scores 9.3 out of 10 for quality of support.
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G2 reviews highlight professional service and an onboarding that gets teams up to speed fast.
Our team makes starting out with Katana easy, with guidance on configuring your ecommerce and accounting integrations during setup and training for every team member before you go live.
Visit our implementation overview to see how we support you before, during, and after implementation.
Customizable Inventory Management
Customization: Katana runs the way you do
Stuck to strict packaging and stiff features?
Katana molds to your business, no matter where or how you sell. Our inventory system flexes and grows with your business, with custom workflows, integrations, dashboards, and support.
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Katana Features
Get your products to customers faster
Katana helps you manage your workflows, no matter what industry you are in, with all the inventory management features and integrations you need to run your 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.
1600+
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
SUCCESS STORIES
1,600+ product businesses scale
their operations with Katana
$40k+ in recovered inventory
How full inventory control across Shopify and Quickbooks uncovered thousands in misplaced raw materials and gave way to a 5x facility expansion.
No more $80k a year in workarounds
No more $80k a year in workarounds
How Shoreline Manufacturing moved off an old ERP and onto a personalized system built around its shop, live in under two months.
Full traceability with Katana
How lot tracking and manufacturing orders in Katana gave Cornbread Hemp recall-ready visibility across every batch, from raw plant to finished CBD oil.
Fully set up in 2 hours
How Nooma connected Amazon and its two Shopify stores in a few clicks and now manages most of its sales from Katana.
2x sales orders handled
How Katana’s Shopify and Xero integrations cut data duplication and let Naturewall process twice the orders without adding admin overhead.
30+ hours saved weekly
How Katana and Shiptheory consolidated multi-channel inventory and automated shipping labels to handle a peak-heavy sales calendar.
+50% on-demand product range
How made-to-order workflows in Katana and a Shopify helped manage 120+ NBA and NFL licenses without overproducing or holding excess stock.
No oversells during peak seasons
How Katana’s multi-level BOMs and automatic Shopify sync prevent oversells and manage long lead times across seasonal peaks.
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Frequently asked questions
Katana is the Unleashed Software alternative built for ecommerce and multichannel product businesses. G2 reviewers rate it 4.4 out of 5, compared with 4.0 for Unleashed, and Katana also covers production for in-house and outsourced work and builds custom workflows with a dedicated Solutions Engineer.
Yes. Katana connects ecommerce channels such as Shopify and Amazon, so orders flow in automatically and stock updates with each sale. It also handles kits, bundles, and customer returns in the same system as your orders and stock.
G2 reviewers rate Katana’s quality of support 9.3 out of 10, compared with 8.8 for Unleashed. Our experts guide your setup through live calls, emails, and learning materials, and our support team answers your questions after go-live.
Most businesses go live in under six weeks, and some in just a few days. Our experts guide your setup from the first call, and go-live happens only after every check is complete.
Your data is checked and validated before you switch, and go-live happens only after every box is checked. Our team guides you through the import and the validation.