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Connect Moda Express to Katana

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

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Written by Argo Ohvril

What the Katana–Moda Express integration does

Moda Express is an omnichannel third-party logistics provider for apparel manufacturers and importers. It offers warehousing, inventory control, picking, packing, shipping, and wholesale and retail fulfillment.

By connecting Katana with Moda Express, you can:

  • Import orders as sales orders: Each Moda Express order becomes a Katana sales order, and each shipped package becomes a fulfillment with carrier and tracking details.

  • Send Katana sales orders to Moda Express for fulfillment: A Katana sales order is pushed to Moda Express when it reaches the Ready for fulfillment status.

  • Import products by SKU: Products match existing Katana products by SKU, and SKU aliases bridge SKUs that don't match.

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

  • Track inbound shipments as stock transfers: Each Moda Express inbound shipment becomes a Katana stock transfer that updates as goods are received.

sync diagram showing Katana on one side and Moda Express on the other: arrows from Moda Express to Katana labeled Orders and fulfillments, Products, Inventory, and Inbound shipments to stock transfers, and one arrow from Katana to Moda Express labeled Sales orders at Ready for fulfillment

Before you start

  • An active Moda Express account. Moda Express sets up an SFTP account for you. Contact your Moda Express account rep to arrange this.

  • The four values the Katana connection form asks for: Host, Username, Password, and Folder. Moda Express sends these to you. See How to find your Moda Express credentials.

  • A Katana account with permission to manage integrations.

Connect Moda Express to Katana

  1. Open Katana's Integrations page and find the Moda Express tile.

  2. Click Connect.

  3. Enter the Host, Username, Password, and Folder that Moda Express gave you, then confirm.

    the Moda Express connection form in Katana showing four input fields labeled Host, Username, Password, and Folder, with a confirm button at the bottom

  4. Once Moda Express 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 Moda Express warehouse to its own Katana location. Use Add to Katana to create a dedicated location automatically.

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

  5. Click Activate sync to start syncing data with Moda Express. Nothing syncs until you click this button.

How your daily workflow looks

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

  2. Moda Express picks, packs, and ships the order.

  3. Orders and their fulfillments arrive in Katana with carrier and tracking details. Each order keeps updating as its status changes.

  4. Moda Express inbound shipments become stock transfers into your mapped Katana locations, and received quantities update them.

  5. Moda Express stock levels update in Katana as read-only external inventory.

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

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