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Connect Shipfusion to Katana

Send Ready for fulfillment sales orders to Shipfusion and get back tracking, stock levels, and inbound transfers.

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Written by Argo Ohvril

What the Katana–Shipfusion integration does

Shipfusion is an ecommerce third-party logistics and order-fulfillment platform built around its Shipfusion 360 warehouse-management system. It connects sales channels and business tools so orders flow into fulfillment and tracking syncs back.

By connecting Katana with Shipfusion, you can:

  • Import orders as sales orders: Each Shipfusion order becomes a Katana sales order that updates through every status change, with shipped packages added as fulfillments with carrier and tracking.

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

  • Import products by SKU: Products are matched to existing Katana products by SKU, and SKU aliases bridge SKUs that differ between the two systems.

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

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

sync diagram showing Katana and Shipfusion side by side: Katana sales orders flowing out to Shipfusion at Ready for fulfillment, and orders with fulfillments and tracking, products, read-only inventory, and inbound shipments (as stock transfers) flowing from Shipfusion into Katana

Before you start

  • An active Shipfusion account with access to Shipfusion 360.

  • Your Shipfusion API Token, which is the field the Katana connection form asks for.

  • A Katana account with permission to manage integrations.

Connect Shipfusion to Katana

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

  2. Click Connect.

  3. Enter your Shipfusion API token in the API Token field and confirm.

    the Katana Shipfusion connection form with the API Token field filled in and the confirm button visible

  4. After Shipfusion 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 Shipfusion warehouse to its own Katana location. Use Add to Katana to create a dedicated location automatically.

    the Shipfusion configuration screen on the Location tab, listing Shipfusion warehouses each mapped to a Katana location, with Add to Katana options, status Connected with Sync inactive, and the Activate sync button in the header

  5. Click Activate sync to start syncing data with Shipfusion. Nothing syncs until you activate sync.

How your daily workflow looks

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

  2. Shipfusion picks, packs, and ships the order.

  3. Orders update in Katana as their status changes. Each shipped package arrives as a fulfillment with carrier and tracking.

  4. Shipfusion inbound shipments appear in Katana as stock transfers into the mapped warehouse location.

  5. Stock levels update as read-only external inventory, and reconciliation adjusts Katana's in-stock to match Shipfusion's on hand.

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

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