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Connect Active Ants to Katana

Send Katana sales orders to Active Ants for fulfillment and import orders, products, inbound shipments, and stock.

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Written by Argo Ohvril

What the Katana–Active Ants integration does

Active Ants is an e-fulfilment and warehouse platform that stores, picks, packs, and ships online orders. Its in-house Maya Warehouse Management System shows order processing, stock levels, and sales data in real time.

By connecting Katana with Active Ants, you can:

  • Import orders as sales orders: Each Active Ants order becomes a Katana sales order, and each shipped package adds a fulfillment with carrier and tracking details.

  • Send sales orders to Active Ants for fulfillment: A Katana sales order is pushed to Active Ants when it reaches the Ready for fulfillment status.

  • Import products by SKU: Matching SKUs link to existing Katana products, and SKU aliases connect SKUs that differ between the two systems.

  • See stock levels at mapped locations: Active Ants stock appears as read-only external inventory at each mapped Katana location.

  • Track inbound shipments as stock transfers: Each Active Ants inbound order becomes a Katana stock transfer.

sync diagram showing Katana and Active Ants side by side: arrows from Active Ants to Katana for orders with fulfillments and tracking, products, read-only stock levels, and inbound orders becoming stock transfers; one arrow from Katana to Active Ants for sales orders at Ready for fulfillment status

Before you start

  • An active Active Ants account.

  • A Username and Password for API access. Active Ants issues these only through your account manager, so request them before you start.

  • A Katana account with permission to manage integrations.

Connect Active Ants to Katana

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

  2. Click Connect.

  3. Enter the Username and Password you received from your Active Ants account manager, then confirm.

    the Katana Active Ants connection form showing the Username and Password fields and the confirm button

  4. Once Active Ants has approved 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 Active Ants warehouse to a Katana location. Use Add to Katana to create a dedicated location for it.

    the warehouse location mapping panel on the Location tab, listing Active Ants warehouses with their mapped Katana locations, an Add to Katana button for an unmapped warehouse, the Connected / Sync inactive status, and the Activate sync button in the header

  5. Click Activate sync to start syncing data with Active Ants. Nothing syncs until you do this.

How your daily workflow looks

  1. You move a Katana sales order to Ready for fulfillment, and Katana sends it to Active Ants.

  2. Active Ants picks, packs, and ships the order.

  3. The order and its status updates come into Katana, and each shipped package becomes a fulfillment with carrier and tracking details.

  4. Inbound orders at Active Ants appear in Katana as stock transfers and update as stock is received.

  5. Active Ants stock levels update as read-only external inventory at your mapped locations.

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

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