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Connect Crafty to Katana

Import Crafty orders, products, stock levels, and inbound shipments into Katana, mapped by warehouse.

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Written by Argo Ohvril

What the Katana–Crafty integration does

Crafty is inventory, costing, and manufacturing software for small-batch product businesses. It brings products, materials, orders, production, and batch and lot tracking together across sales channels.

By connecting Katana with Crafty, you can:

  • Import orders as sales orders: Crafty orders become Katana sales orders, and each shipped package adds a fulfillment with carrier and tracking.

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

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

  • Track inbound shipments as stock transfers: Each Crafty inbound shipment becomes a Katana stock transfer that updates as it is received.

  • Map warehouses to locations: Each Crafty warehouse is linked to its own dedicated Katana location.

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

Before you start

  • An active Crafty account.

  • Your Crafty API key. Your Crafty representative provides it when they set up API access for you.

  • A Katana account with permission to manage integrations.

Connect Crafty to Katana

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

  2. Click Connect.

  3. Enter your API key in the connection form and confirm.

    the Katana connection form for Crafty with a single API key input field and a confirm button

  4. Once Crafty 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 Crafty warehouse to a Katana location. Click Add to Katana to create a dedicated location for a warehouse.

    the Location tab of the Crafty configuration screen listing Crafty warehouses, each with its mapping status (mapped, Unlinked, or Not mapped), Add to Katana, Unlink, and Relink actions, and the Activate sync button in the header

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

How your daily workflow looks

  1. Crafty receives and fulfills orders from your sales channels.

  2. Orders reaching the import-from status land in Katana as sales orders and keep updating as their status changes.

  3. Shipped packages appear as fulfillments with carrier and tracking details.

  4. Inbound shipments to your Crafty warehouses appear as stock transfers and update as they are received.

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

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

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