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Connect Shippingbo to Katana

Bring Shippingbo orders in as sales orders, view read-only warehouse stock, and track inbounds as stock transfers.

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Written by Argo Ohvril

What the Katana–Shippingbo integration does

Shippingbo is a SaaS e-commerce logistics suite that combines order management, warehouse management, and transport management. It centralizes orders, manages warehouse picking and stock movements, and automates carrier selection, shipping labels, and tracking.

By connecting Katana with Shippingbo, you can:

  • Import orders as sales orders: Each Shippingbo order becomes a Katana sales order that keeps updating, with each shipped package added as a fulfillment with carrier and tracking.

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

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

  • Track inbound shipments as stock transfers: Each Shippingbo inbound shipment becomes a Katana stock transfer that follows its status and received quantities.

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

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

Before you start

  • An active Shippingbo account.

  • Your Shippingbo account login. You don't need API credentials, because you authorize the connection by signing in to your Shippingbo account.

  • A Katana account with permission to manage integrations.

Connect Shippingbo to Katana

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

  2. Click Connect.

  3. When you're asked to, sign in with your Shippingbo account login and approve Katana's access.

    the Shippingbo connection step opened from Katana's Connect button, showing the Shippingbo sign-in and authorization screen where the user logs in with their Shippingbo account and approves access for Katana

  4. After Shippingbo 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 Shippingbo warehouse to a Katana location. To create a new location for a warehouse, use Add to Katana.

    the Shippingbo configuration screen on the Location tab, listing Shippingbo warehouses with their mapped Katana locations, an Add to Katana option, the status Connected with Sync inactive, and the Activate sync button in the header

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

How your daily workflow looks

  1. Shippingbo receives your orders and fulfills them from its warehouses.

  2. Orders that reach your configured import status come into Katana as sales orders and keep updating as their status changes.

  3. Each shipped package appears in Katana as a fulfillment with carrier and tracking details.

  4. Inbound shipments to Shippingbo warehouses appear in Katana as stock transfers and update as stock is received.

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

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

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