Orders Into Katana Before The Shop Floor Plans
In Katana a sales order drives production planning and material availability, so a late or mis-keyed order distorts what you build. We read emailed and PDF orders and create them in Katana through the API the moment they arrive, so your shop floor plans against real, current demand.
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Why Manufacturers Work With Us
Developers who understand production, building order automation against the live Katana API and shaped around how you actually manufacture.
Feeds Production Planning
Orders are created in Katana as sales orders, so they immediately inform material availability and scheduling rather than sitting in an inbox.
Finished Goods Or Make-To-Order
Lines are matched to your Katana products, whether finished goods with a bill of materials or made-to-order variants.
Any Order Format
PDF purchase orders, spreadsheets, Word files and email text are all read, however your B2B customers send them.
Priced And Validated
We apply the customer's pricing and validate each line, so orders reach Katana correct rather than needing correction after planning has started.
Exceptions Held
Duplicates, price mismatches, missing details and unmatched products are held for review instead of distorting your build plan.
Bespoke And UK-Built
A developer-led build against the live Katana API, shaped around how you manufacture, delivered under NDA.
The Order Formats We Read Into Katana
Emailed and PDF purchase orders, spreadsheets and Word files read and turned into Katana sales orders through the API, so production and material planning always work from real, current demand.
Laravel & Bespoke Platforms
For systems and platforms that require bespoke processes, data handling complex integrations or internal business platforms with security at the forefront of the build.
WordPress & WooCommerce
For fast, reliable and easy to manage brochure based websites built following best practice with a bespoke theme powered by ACF Pro and supporting custom built plugins.
Shopify & Shopify Plus
For eCommerce and retail brands looking to grow revenue significantly online. Built using a bespoke theme specific to your brand and with a full seamless migration from legacy platforms.
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Clintons Cards
A full migration from Magento 2 to Shopify Plus, with order, customer, product, stock and finance integrations kept live through the switch.
Ecommerce · Shopify Plus · Integrations
QualityHive
A Laravel platform that web agencies use to capture, assign and close website bugs, taken from wireframe to launch, then handed over as clean, documented code.
SaaS platform · Laravel · API integrations
The Sauce Foundry
A brand, a WooCommerce store and product photography for an artisan hot sauce startup, launched to a 3.8% conversion rate from day one.
Ecommerce · Branding · WooCommerce
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Frequently Asked Questions
Automating Sales Order Entry Into Katana MRP
Katana turns orders into production, so an order that is late into the system is demand your shop floor cannot plan for. Here is how we automate emailed order entry into Katana so production and material planning always work from the real, current order book.
Why entry timing drives manufacturing
In a stock business an order is a request to ship something that already exists. In a manufacturing business running Katana, an order is a request to make something, and until it is in Katana, your material availability and production planning do not know about it. That is a more expensive kind of delay, because it does not just hold up one despatch, it means the shop floor is planning against the wrong picture.
Automating order entry closes that gap. The moment an order arrives, it is read and created in Katana, so planning always reflects real, current demand rather than a backlog waiting to be typed up.
Matching to products, finished goods and made-to-order
We read PDF, CSV, Excel, Word and email-body orders, trained on your real formats, and match each line to your Katana products, whether that is a finished good with a bill of materials or a made-to-order variant. Anything that cannot be matched confidently is flagged rather than guessed, so production is never planned against the wrong item.
Pricing follows the customer and is validated line by line. These are the manufacturing-specific details that generic connectors do not handle, and they sit within our wider business automation and API integrations work.
Not sure make-to-order can be matched automatically?
Send us a few orders for configured or made-to-order products. We will show you honestly what can be matched to Katana automatically and what needs a review step.
Created in Katana, feeding the plan
Validated orders are created in Katana as sales orders through the API, so they immediately inform material availability and production scheduling. Duplicate purchase order references are caught before they create phantom demand, and exceptions are held for review.
For make-to-order manufacturers in particular, this is the difference between planning against live orders and planning against whatever has been manually entered so far. This is a focused part of our broader automated order processing service.
A careful, bespoke rollout
Because orders drive production, we are deliberate. Orders are reviewed while we tune the reading on your products and formats, and only orders that clear your confidence rules post automatically. Every original document is kept and every field logged.
It is a developer-led build shaped around how you manufacture and how Katana is configured, delivered by a UK team against the live Katana API under NDA. If you also run a separate stock or fulfilment system alongside Katana, the same approach applies through our Cin7 order automation and Unleashed order automation.
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