Connect Shopify Plus and katana

Connecting Shopify Plus and Katana could allow a company to synchronize sales orders, inventory levels, and product data between the two platforms. This could help reduce manual data entry, improve order accuracy, and provide better visibility into stock and production status across sales and manufacturing operations.

You can build this integration on the System2System platform. We design the connection between Shopify Plus and katana around the way you work — not as an off-the-shelf connector, but to fit your systems.

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Why connect Shopify Plus and katana?

A company operating both Shopify Plus and Katana could benefit from connecting these systems to enable more efficient and accurate business operations. If the systems do not exchange data, staff may need to enter the same information separately in each platform, which can be time-consuming and increases the risk of human error. This manual process could result in records becoming inconsistent over time, with product, inventory, or order information diverging between systems. As a result, managers might make decisions based on outdated or incomplete information, which could negatively impact customer satisfaction, inventory planning, and financial reporting. If a connection were established, certain types of data could be exchanged between Shopify Plus and Katana. For example, sales order details created in Shopify Plus could be transferred to Katana to trigger production or inventory allocation. Inventory balances and product availability could be updated in Shopify Plus based on changes in Katana, helping to prevent overselling. Product catalog updates and customer information might also be shared to keep both systems aligned. The specific data that can be exchanged would depend on the capabilities and access provided by each system’s API, and would need to be determined for each particular case.

How System2System builds an integration

Connectors

We connect to each system through the interface it offers — an API, a database, a file exchange or a webhook — and handle authentication, rate limits and retries.

Mapping

Fields rarely line up one to one. We map and transform the data so both systems receive it in the shape they expect.

Workflow

We define what triggers an exchange, in which direction data flows and which system takes precedence when the two disagree.

Monitoring

Every exchange is logged. Failures are flagged and can be replayed, so nothing disappears without anyone noticing.

What can actually be exchanged?

That depends on what Shopify Plus and katana make available through their APIs, on the licences and modules in use, and on the version each system runs. Which records are synchronised, in which direction and how often, is something we determine together before any work starts.

We are happy to look at your specific situation and tell you what is feasible — including when the answer is that it is not.