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Katana

Katana is a cloud manufacturing ERP and inventory management platform for product businesses. It gives makers and small-to-midsize manufacturers real-time inventory control across multiple locations and sales channels, production and manufacturing-order planning, purchasing and demand forecasting, warehouse and bin management with barcode workflows, and lot/ serial-number traceability. Katana connects to Shopify, Amazon, QuickBooks Online, Xero, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, HubSpot and 50+ other tools, and exposes a full REST API (documented with OpenAPI 3.0) plus HMAC-signed webhooks so integrators can sync sales orders, purchase orders, manufacturing orders, products, variants, materials and stock programmatically. Added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Northzone and enriched from its public developer surface.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Katana the way a machine reads it — 135 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Katana scores 50.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 28/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 50.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 12.1 / 25
Access Clarity 12.1 / 20
Discoverability 7.6 / 10
Katana Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Katana

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Katana. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 64

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Katana AdditionalCostController API

The AdditionalCostController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for additionalcostcontroller.

Katana BatchController API

The BatchController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for batchcontroller.

Katana BatchStockController API

The BatchStockController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for batchstockcontroller.

Katana BinInventoryController API

The BinInventoryController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for bininventorycontroller.

Katana BinLocationController API

The BinLocationController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for binlocationcontroller.

Katana BinTransferController API

The BinTransferController API from Katana — 3 operation(s) for bintransfercontroller.

Katana BinTransferRowController API

The BinTransferRowController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for bintransferrowcontroller.

Katana BomRowController API

The BomRowController API from Katana — 3 operation(s) for bomrowcontroller.

Katana CustomerAddressController API

The CustomerAddressController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for customeraddresscontroller.

Katana CustomerController API

The CustomerController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for customercontroller.

Katana CustomFieldDefinitionController API

The CustomFieldDefinitionController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for customfielddefinitioncontroller.

Katana CustomSalesOrderController API

The CustomSalesOrderController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for customsalesordercontroller.

Katana DemandForecastController API

The DemandForecastController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for demandforecastcontroller.

Katana FactoryController API

The FactoryController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for factorycontroller.

Katana InventoryController API

The InventoryController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for inventorycontroller.

Katana InventorySafetyStockLevelController API

The InventorySafetyStockLevelController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for inventorysafetystocklevelcontroller.

Katana ItemsCustomFieldsCollectionController API

The ItemsCustomFieldsCollectionController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for itemscustomfieldscollectioncontroller.

Katana LocationController API

The LocationController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for locationcontroller.

Katana MakeToOrderMOController API

The MakeToOrderMOController API from Katana — 3 operation(s) for maketoordermocontroller.

Katana ManufacturingOrderController API

The ManufacturingOrderController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for manufacturingordercontroller.

Katana ManufacturingOrderOperationRowController API

The ManufacturingOrderOperationRowController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for manufacturingorderoperationrowcontroller.

Katana ManufacturingOrderProductionController API

The ManufacturingOrderProductionController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for manufacturingorderproductioncontroller.

Katana ManufacturingOrderProductionIngredientController API

The ManufacturingOrderProductionIngredientController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for manufacturingorderproductioningredientcontroller.

Katana ManufacturingOrderRecipeRowController API

The ManufacturingOrderRecipeRowController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for manufacturingorderreciperowcontroller.

Katana MaterialController API

The MaterialController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for materialcontroller.

Katana NegativeStockLatestMovementController API

The NegativeStockLatestMovementController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for negativestocklatestmovementcontroller.

Katana OperatorsController API

The OperatorsController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for operatorscontroller.

Katana PoAdditionalCostRowController API

The PoAdditionalCostRowController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for poadditionalcostrowcontroller.

Katana PriceListController API

The PriceListController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for pricelistcontroller.

Katana PriceListCustomerController API

The PriceListCustomerController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for pricelistcustomercontroller.

Katana PriceListRowController API

The PriceListRowController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for pricelistrowcontroller.

Katana ProductController API

The ProductController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for productcontroller.

Katana ProductOperationsController API

The ProductOperationsController API from Katana — 3 operation(s) for productoperationscontroller.

Katana PurchaseOrderAccountingMetadataController API

The PurchaseOrderAccountingMetadataController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for purchaseorderaccountingmetadatacontroller.

Katana PurchaseOrderController API

The PurchaseOrderController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for purchaseordercontroller.

Katana PurchaseOrderReceiveController API

The PurchaseOrderReceiveController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for purchaseorderreceivecontroller.

Katana PurchaseOrderRecipeRowController API

The PurchaseOrderRecipeRowController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for purchaseorderreciperowcontroller.

Katana PurchaseOrderRowController API

The PurchaseOrderRowController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for purchaseorderrowcontroller.

Katana RecipeController API

The RecipeController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for recipecontroller.

Katana RecipeRowController API

The RecipeRowController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for reciperowcontroller.

Katana SalesOrderAccountingMetadataController API

The SalesOrderAccountingMetadataController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for salesorderaccountingmetadatacontroller.

Katana SalesOrderAddressController API

The SalesOrderAddressController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for salesorderaddresscontroller.

Katana SalesOrderController API

The SalesOrderController API from Katana — 4 operation(s) for salesordercontroller.

Katana SalesOrderFulfillmentController API

The SalesOrderFulfillmentController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for salesorderfulfillmentcontroller.

Katana SalesOrderRowController API

The SalesOrderRowController API from Katana — 3 operation(s) for salesorderrowcontroller.

Katana SalesOrderShippingFeeController API

The SalesOrderShippingFeeController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for salesordershippingfeecontroller.

Katana SalesReturnRowController API

The SalesReturnRowController API from Katana — 3 operation(s) for salesreturnrowcontroller.

Katana SalesReturnsController API

The SalesReturnsController API from Katana — 3 operation(s) for salesreturnscontroller.

Katana SerialNumberController API

The SerialNumberController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for serialnumbercontroller.

Katana SerialNumberStockController API

The SerialNumberStockController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for serialnumberstockcontroller.

Katana ServiceController API

The ServiceController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for servicecontroller.

Katana StockAdjustmentController API

The StockAdjustmentController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for stockadjustmentcontroller.

Katana StocktakeController API

The StocktakeController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for stocktakecontroller.

Katana StocktakeRowController API

The StocktakeRowController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for stocktakerowcontroller.

Katana StockTransferController API

The StockTransferController API from Katana — 3 operation(s) for stocktransfercontroller.

Katana SupplierAddressController API

The SupplierAddressController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for supplieraddresscontroller.

Katana SupplierController API

The SupplierController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for suppliercontroller.

Katana TaxRateController API

The TaxRateController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for taxratecontroller.

Katana UnlinkVariantBinLocationController API

The UnlinkVariantBinLocationController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for unlinkvariantbinlocationcontroller.

Katana UsersController API

The UsersController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for userscontroller.

Katana VariantBinLocationController API

The VariantBinLocationController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for variantbinlocationcontroller.

Katana VariantController API

The VariantController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for variantcontroller.

Katana WebhookController API

The WebhookController API from Katana — 2 operation(s) for webhookcontroller.

Katana WebhookLogsController API

The WebhookLogsController API from Katana — 1 operation(s) for webhooklogscontroller.

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Open Collections 65

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

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Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Katana Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Katana Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Katana Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Katana Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Katana Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Katana Agentic Access

226 operations · 139 acting · 139 human-in-the-loop

226 operations · 139 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Katana — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Katana, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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