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Connect Star WMS to Katana

Import Star WMS orders, products, stock, and inbounds, and push Ready for fulfillment sales orders to your 3PL.

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Written by Argo Ohvril

What the Katana–Star WMS integration does

Star WMS is a warehouse management system that specializes in cross-border e-commerce logistics.

By connecting Katana with Star WMS, you can:

  • Import orders as sales orders: Star WMS orders become Katana sales orders that keep updating, with each shipped package added as a fulfillment with carrier and tracking.

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

  • Import products by SKU: products match existing Katana products by SKU, and SKU aliases bridge mismatched SKUs.

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

  • Turn inbound shipments into stock transfers: each Star WMS inbound shipment becomes a Katana stock transfer that tracks its receiving progress.

sync diagram showing Katana on one side and Star WMS on the other: an arrow from Katana to Star WMS labeled 'Sales orders (at Ready for fulfillment)', and arrows from Star WMS to Katana labeled 'Orders and fulfillments with tracking', 'Products by SKU', 'Read-only stock levels', and 'Inbound shipments as stock transfers'

Before you start

  • An active Star WMS account through your 3PL.

  • The credentials the Katana connection form asks for: your Star WMS App Key and Secret. Your 3PL provides these for a production or sandbox instance.

  • A Katana account with permission to manage integrations.

Connect Star WMS to Katana

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

  2. Click Connect.

  3. Enter your App Key and Secret in the connection form, then confirm.

    the Katana Star WMS connection form with two empty input fields labeled 'App Key' and 'Secret' and a confirm button

  4. After Star WMS 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 Star WMS warehouse to its own Katana location, or use Add to Katana to create a location automatically.

    the Star WMS configuration screen on the Location tab, listing Star WMS warehouses each mapped to a Katana location, with an 'Add to Katana' option, the status 'Connected' and 'Sync inactive', and the 'Activate sync' button in the header

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

How your daily workflow looks

  1. Katana sends a sales order to Star WMS when the order reaches Ready for fulfillment.

  2. Your 3PL picks, packs, and ships the order in Star WMS.

  3. Orders and their status changes import into Katana. Each shipped package appears as a fulfillment with carrier and tracking.

  4. Inbound shipments to your 3PL appear as Katana stock transfers and update as stock is received.

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

  6. You plan purchasing and production in Katana using the current figures.

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