Looking for a Katana MRP alternative?

Katana is built around manufacturing: bills of materials, production orders and shop-floor planning. If you buy, store and ship stock rather than make it, that is a product aimed at a different job. Count My Boxes is warehouse and wholesale inventory: one item record, stock per warehouse, purchase orders and a customer portal.

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When a manufacturing system is more than you need

A distributor, retailer or wholesaler pays the setup and screen-space cost of production planning they never use. Count My Boxes keeps the scope to receiving, storing, counting and selling: purchase orders with partial receiving, transfers between warehouses, batch and expiry tracking, and a portal where customers place their own orders. If you do manufacture from raw materials, Katana's focus may fit you better; this page is for teams who only need the warehouse half.

How Count My Boxes handles it

Warehouse-first, not production-first

One item record, stock tracked per warehouse, transfers with an in-transit state. No bills of materials to configure before you can count stock.

Purchase orders with partial receiving

Raise a PO, receive shipments against it as they land, and stock updates as it arrives.

Customer portal and batch tracking included

Each wholesale customer gets a login, their catalog and their prices. Lot numbers, expiry dates and FEFO fulfillment are part of the item record.

Count My Boxes vs. Katana MRP

Feature Count My Boxes Katana MRP
Primary focus Warehouse and wholesale inventory Manufacturing and MRP
Bills of materials / production orders Not part of the product Core of the product
Item across warehouses One record, stock per location Stock locations on the product record
Customer order portal Available Not the core product
Batch and expiry / FEFO Available Batch tracking available
Setup CSV in, live the same day Configuration around production workflows

Based on Katana MRP's publicly documented feature set as of 2026 — products change over time.

Warehouse inventory without the production module

Open a sample warehouse with no signup, or import your catalog from a CSV and start receiving stock today.

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