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Connect Skulabs to Katana

Bring Skulabs orders with tracking, SKU-matched products, inbound shipments and warehouse stock into Katana.

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Written by Argo Ohvril

What the Katana–Skulabs integration does

Skulabs is a multichannel inventory, order-management, warehouse-management, and shipping platform for ecommerce businesses. It connects stores, marketplaces, logistics providers, and carriers in one system.

By connecting Katana with Skulabs, you can:

  • Import orders as sales orders: Each Skulabs order becomes a Katana sales order, and shipped packages arrive as fulfillments with carrier and tracking details.

  • Import products by SKU: Existing Katana products are matched by SKU, and SKU aliases can bridge SKUs that don't match.

  • See stock levels at mapped locations: Skulabs stock numbers appear in Katana as read-only external inventory at each warehouse's mapped location.

  • Turn inbound shipments into stock transfers: Each Skulabs inbound shipment becomes a Katana stock transfer that tracks its status and received quantities.

  • Map warehouses to locations: Each Skulabs warehouse syncs to its own dedicated Katana location.

sync diagram showing data flowing one way from Skulabs into Katana: orders and fulfillments with tracking become sales orders, products match by SKU, stock levels appear as read-only external inventory at mapped locations, and inbound shipments become stock transfers

Before you start

  • An active Skulabs account.

  • Your Skulabs API Token, which the Katana connection form asks for.

  • A Katana account with permission to manage integrations.

Connect Skulabs to Katana

  1. In Katana, open the Integrations page and find the Skulabs tile.

  2. Click Connect.

  3. Enter your Skulabs API Token in the connection form and confirm.

    the Katana Skulabs connection form with a single API Token input field and a confirm button

  4. After Skulabs approves the connection, the configuration screen opens on the Location tab. The integration status shows Connected with Sync inactive, and an Activate sync button appears in the header. Map each Skulabs warehouse to a Katana location. You can use Add to Katana to create a dedicated location.

    the warehouse location mapping panel on the Location tab, listing Skulabs warehouses each mapped to a Katana location, with Add to Katana, Remove, and Restore options and the Activate sync button in the header

  5. Click Activate sync to start syncing data with Skulabs. Nothing syncs before you do this.

How your daily workflow looks

  1. Skulabs picks, packs, and ships your orders.

  2. Orders that reach the configured import-from status appear in Katana as sales orders and keep updating as their status changes.

  3. Shipped packages land in Katana as fulfillments with carrier and tracking.

  4. Inbound shipments in Skulabs become Katana stock transfers that update as stock is received.

  5. Skulabs stock levels refresh as read-only external inventory at your mapped locations.

  6. You plan production and purchasing in Katana using up-to-date data.

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