ERPlisity + Katana MRP
Katana runs your production. Now close the loop with suppliers.
Katana sends a purchase order and then goes quiet — supplier replies land in someone's inbox and get re-keyed by hand. ERPlisity adds the confirmation loop: zero-login supplier responses, written back to Katana and verified.
What happens today when a Katana PO goes out
Katana is a genuinely good manufacturing ERP — that's why we built a connector for it. But its purchasing loop stops at "send." Per Katana's own support docs, sending a PO is a one-way email with a 10-recipient limit. There's no supplier portal and no built-in confirmation step. Which means:
- •The supplier's reply — "we can do 200 units but not until the 14th" — lands in a regular inbox, not in Katana.
- •Someone on your team re-keys the new date and quantity into Katana by hand. Or forgets to.
- •Unacknowledged POs sit silent until a buyer notices and sends a chase email.
- •Your expected-arrival dates in Katana reflect what you asked for, not what the supplier actually committed to.
The problem isn't Katana. It's the gap between "PO sent" and "PO confirmed" — and that gap is exactly what ERPlisity closes. See how it works in detail on our PO acknowledgment automation page.
From one-way email to a verified loop
1. Connect Katana in the cloud
A cloud connector links ERPlisity to your Katana account — no appliance, no VPN, no IT project. Same-week setup.
2. POs go out with magic links
Every purchase order reaches your supplier as an email with a secure magic link — no 10-recipient ceiling, no PDF attachment dead-ending in an inbox.
3. Suppliers respond with zero login
One click to confirm, propose a new date or price, split lines, or attach a ship notice. No account, no password, free forever for suppliers.
4. Responses written back to Katana — and verified
Confirmations and date changes land in Katana automatically, then ERPlisity reads them back to verify they actually landed. Nobody re-keys anything.
What you get on top of Katana
Zero-login supplier responses
Confirm, change dates and prices, split lines, attach ship notices — all from an email magic link. Suppliers never create an account.
Verified write-back to Katana
Every supplier response is written to Katana, then read back to confirm it landed. Your PO dates in Katana stay true.
Honest OTIF scorecards
Supplier performance measured against the original promise date as well as the renegotiated one — so a slipped-then-reconfirmed PO doesn't score as on-time.
AI order agents
Agents chase unacknowledged POs, read supplier replies, and recommend actions — so nobody spends Friday afternoon on follow-up emails.
Reports with CSV export
Open-PO status, response times, and OTIF in one place, exportable to CSV for whatever spreadsheet ritual your team runs.
Priced by active suppliers
Unlimited buyer seats, never per document. $399/mo covers ~25 active suppliers, with bands up from there.
SMB Cloud — built for Katana shops
$399per month
- Unlimited buyer seats — never per seat, never per document
- ~25 active suppliers, bands up from there
- Suppliers free forever, no accounts
- Same-week cloud connector setup
Design partner program: 50% off year one for the first 5 customers.
Katana + ERPlisity, answered straight
Does Katana MRP have a supplier portal?
No. Katana's own support docs describe PO sending as a one-way email (with a 10-recipient limit) — there's no built-in way for suppliers to confirm or update a PO. ERPlisity adds that loop on top of Katana: suppliers respond from a magic link and the response is written back into Katana automatically.
How do suppliers confirm a Katana purchase order with ERPlisity?
They click a magic link in the PO email — no login, no account, free forever for suppliers. From there they can confirm the PO, propose date or price changes, split lines, or attach ship notices. Every response is written back to Katana and then read back to verify it landed.
Does ERPlisity write supplier responses back to Katana?
Yes. Confirmations and date changes are written to your Katana account via the cloud connector, then read back to verify the update actually landed. No CSV imports, no re-keying supplier emails by hand.
What does ERPlisity for Katana cost?
The SMB Cloud tier is $399/mo, published on our pricing page: unlimited buyer seats, roughly 25 active suppliers with bands up from there, cloud connector with verified write-back, and reports with CSV export. Suppliers pay nothing, ever. Priced by active suppliers — never per seat or per document.
Stop re-keying supplier emails into Katana.
Connect Katana in the cloud, send POs with magic links, and get every supplier response written back and verified — for a published $399/mo.