We were looking for end-to-end traceability on our raw ingredients through to finished products. We also wanted an accurate inventory system for batch planning, warehousing, and sales. Katana fulfills all our needs in a simple, easy solution.
Irah Vet
Founder and CEO, Hornby Organic
Utilize our advanced features for greater control over your brewing process and integrated sales and accounting
With brewery manufacturing software as a single source of truth for your business, brewery management and beer production is simpler
Brewery owners operate in an incredibly competitive market, competing amongst smaller craft breweries and major beer producers daily. This is where software designed to make daily life in a brewing company easier can be a major advantage. And that’s what we believe Katana can be.
Katana is a manufacturing ERP, that can easily serve as a brewery ERP, to help you craft beverages on a growing scale, manage your recipes, help clarify production decisions, and keep finances in a healthy shape.
Work on your brewing process and never run low on raw ingredients
When working with consumable goods, your production process has a lot of moving parts you need to factor in. You’ll need to use batch tracking for both raw materials and packaged products to make sure nothing nears its expiry date, and you also need to ensure your recipe management is perfectly defined, so product taste and consistency never change.
Katana offers you all the features to refine and automate your brewery operations and beverage manufacturing, helping you set automated reorder points for important raw materials, write detailed bills of materials which can include notes about production, and remotely manage your warehouse team so packing and shipping is done without you needing to be in the building.
Keep sales and accounting integrated with your business in Katana’s platform
With your finished products ready and quality control done, you need to present them to your potential customers in as many places as possible. To help you increase sales, Katana offers native integrations with two excellent e-commerce platforms, Shopify and WooCommerce, and has a wide range of third-party options as well, so you can make your brewed beverages widely available online.
And as sales start to come in, you can keep track of your business accounts in your accounting platform of choice. We integrate directly with QuickBooks Online and Xero, and our API helps you connect with other providers, making financial and tax reporting a lot easier. With all of your production, sales, accounting, and shipping data in one place, you could almost say Katana is built for breweries.
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Create custom API integrations
Use Katana’s open API to create custom workflows and connect to apps beyond our list of integrations. Automate data transfers between the services you use to level up efficiency. Take a look at our API documentation to learn more.
Yes, you can use barcoding and barcode scanners with Katana for batch tracking, keg tracking, and inventory management across all of your warehouses and storage facilities.
Yes, we do. We support both physical and online sellers, so if you’ve got a web store or a physical one, you can track your sales using Shopify’s integration with POS software.
The timeline can vary, but you should be able to get up and running within a couple of days. Katana offers a well-presented platform, and has an extensive Knowledge Base with lots of video guides to help you get started.
Absolutely – our case study section offers some of our success stories so far, and you can look at our features and pricing pages to help you compare products before making an ultimate software selection.
Finally, you can reach out to our sales team if you’d like a guided demo, or a chat about how Katana could help your business specifically.