Katana

Items in Katana include all your products and materials with variants

What are Items?

A product is an item that you sell to your customers

What is a product?

Materials are items that you use in manufacturing your products

What is a material?

Creating a product

You can import new products to Katana either directly from your e-commerce platform or using our spreadsheet template

Importing new products and variants

Update data for products and variants via spreadsheet

Update data for existing products and variants via import

Editing a product

Duplicating a product

Deleting products

There are three ways to create a new material

Creating a material

You can import new materials to Katana using our spreadsheet template

Importing new materials and variants

Update data for materials and variants via spreadsheet

Update data for existing materials and variants via import

Editing a material

Duplicating a material

Deleting materials

Learn how are costs calculated for products and materials in Katana

Video: Tracking costs of products and materials

What is a category?

Creating categories

Editing and deleting categories

Variant code is a unique identifier for your product or material variant

What is a Variant code / SKU?

How to create, edit and delete Variant Codes / SKU

Create, edit and delete Variant Codes / SKU

Deleted items are displayed as crossed out

Why is my item crossed out on the order, stock adjustment, or transfer?

Trying to differentiate products from materials? This article should help you out.

Product vs Material

Material Tracking

Custom fields for items

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Everything you need to know about Items, Variants, and Product Recipes

Items

Variants refer to groups of the same product or material, categorized by specific attributes

What is a variant?

There are four steps to creating variants

Creating variants

Edit and delete variants

Defining a variant's default storage bin

Variants

Product recipe is a list of ingredients and the quantities you use in order to create your product

What is a Product recipe / BOM (Bill-of-Materials)?

Creating a Product recipe

You can import Product recipes using our xls template

Importing Product recipes

You can create a specific Product Recipe for each variant of a product

Creating Product Recipes for product variants

See how to create a Product Recipe for products with multiple variants

Video: Creating Product Recipes for multiple product variants

Subassembly is an item produced in your or contractor's factory designed to be used in making a larger assembly or a final product

Using subassemblies in Product recipes

A quick way to create a recipe is to copy it from the other product

Copying a Product recipe from another product

Editing Product recipes

Edit default Product recipes for products by manually changing ingredients or quantities, or update your Recipes in bulk using import