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Connect Mabang to Katana

Send ready sales orders to Mabang, import its orders and inbound shipments, and see its stock as external inventory.

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Written by Argo Ohvril

What the Katana–Mabang integration does

Mabang is a cross-border e-commerce ERP and logistics-management platform. It handles order, product, inventory, warehouse, procurement, and fulfillment management.

By connecting Katana with Mabang, you can:

  • Import orders as sales orders: Each Mabang order becomes a Katana sales order that keeps updating through later status changes, with shipped packages added as fulfillments with carrier and tracking.

  • Send sales orders to Mabang for fulfillment: A Katana sales order is pushed to Mabang as an outbound order when it reaches the Ready for fulfillment status.

  • Import products by SKU: Existing Katana products are matched by SKU, unknown SKUs are created as needed, and SKU aliases connect SKUs that don't match.

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

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

  • Map warehouses to locations: Each Mabang warehouse links to its own dedicated Katana location.

sync diagram showing Katana on one side and Mabang on the other: arrows from Mabang to Katana labeled Orders and fulfillments, Products, Inventory (read-only), Inbound shipments to Stock transfers, and Warehouses to Locations; one arrow from Katana to Mabang labeled Sales orders at Ready for fulfillment

Before you start

  • An active Mabang account with TMS API access enabled. Mabang provides API access as a paid add-on through your account manager.

  • The three values the connection form asks for: Base URL, ID (your Mabang Seller Code), and Secret Key (your Mabang Seller Secret Key).

  • A Katana account with permission to manage integrations.

Connect Mabang to Katana

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

  2. Click Connect.

  3. Enter the Base URL, ID, and Secret Key from Mabang, then confirm. Katana checks your credentials with Mabang when you connect.

    the Katana Mabang connection form showing three input fields labeled Base URL, ID, and Secret Key, with a confirm button

  4. After Mabang 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 Mabang warehouse to a Katana location. Use Add to Katana to create a dedicated location for a warehouse.

    the warehouse location mapping panel on the Location tab, listing Mabang warehouses each with an Add to Katana action or a linked Katana location, with the Connected and Sync inactive status and the Activate sync button visible in the header

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

How your daily workflow looks

  1. When a Katana sales order reaches Ready for fulfillment, Katana sends it to Mabang as an outbound order.

  2. Mabang fulfills orders and ships packages.

  3. Orders and their fulfillments, with carrier and tracking, land in Katana and keep updating as statuses change.

  4. Mabang inbound shipments become Katana stock transfers and update as stock is received.

  5. Mabang 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 picture.

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