Unleashed vs Katana Cloud Manufacturing Comparison

User Friendliness, reporting and support.

Some functionalities missing for manufacturing environment Sales Pipeline management integration is not there yet

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I like the fact that they teach you everything including the costs of manufacturing waste and stocking

Nothing I like least I also like the fact that they also have a mobile app and we can use it and learn or modify things even if we are not at the office

The fact that if you are an inputter, it is user friendly and intuitive; integrates with Xero; great customer support

Not being able to select the date of a stock adjustment or the date at which stock is received is really unhelpful. All of our warehouses are remote so it takes at least 2 days for the results of stock counts leading to adjustments being posted, by which time month end has passed. Same applies regarding the notification of incoming stock. It is a bit too "real time" for me!

The flexibility it provides to a manufacturing / warehousing business is amazing. Everything from bills of material to sales orders runs seemlessly.

no cons really as any items required have been updated in the system. just waiting to see if a bespoke report generator is going to be introduced in time where we pick our own fields to report on.

Unleashed has been a very important part of our business since we started. We use Unleashed for our manufacturing, IM and sales. It is a vital part of the ease of ordering our ingredients and packaging, manufacturing our drinks, managing our inventory, monitoring our cost of good sold and invoicing our customers. It does this seamlessly and interacts with our Xero system seamlessly - too easy.

A bit slow in operation, especially compared to invoicing system Xero. We're also looking forward to new developments from unleashed

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One of the best of the inventory management packages available with an integration to Xero. API access is top level.

The quoting capability and batch reporting for a manufacturing business is poor. While the software includes functionality for BOM's and Assembly's, there's no way to easily quote specialist parts without building a BOM which is a bit of a waste of time.

Built for Growth: Unleashed is a very scalable solution that has a lot of features that whilst might not be necessary now you'll be glad you have available down the track. Shipping, Multi-warehouse/currency are examples of these. + Manufacturing

Demand Forecasting: If you're in an industry with long lead times where demand forecasting is essential to your business Unleasehd will only be able to help you with it. You'll need to continue to run your mega spreadsheets to forecast future trends.

Ease of use, reliability, ease to introduce to new employees, functionality, value for money and numerous other attributes.

We're looking forward to new developments from unleashed

The inventory management (the core of the software) is great. It enables easy management of sales, purchases, and control of stock.

The manufacturing side of the software (bill of materials etc) is not good. You can't relate a BOM to a sales order or a customer when you print out the BOM to be manufactured. The reporting side of the software is not good either - it's hard to get stock reports that include assembled items.

Cloud based, instant and easy to use.

I think all computers programs have issues but nothing with Unleashed is a major issue.

Provides the power and sophistication clients need with the flexibility and mobility of a cloud based product. It is ever-evolving and being developed with great new enhancements - an important feature when considering making the jump across to Unleashed.

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Despite being feature-rich Unleashed is easy to use. Staff pick up their parts of the process quickly. It's worth noting that Unleashed is also the ONLY inventory app in the Xero space that does manufacturing well. Unleashed also has flexible and easy to use reporting that doesn't require a computer science degree. Any staff member can retrieve and customise the reports they need to do their jobs.

At the time of this review Unleashed does not: - Provide stock on hand at the bin level (unless all products of that SKU are in the same bin) - Provide demand forecasting

Intuitive interface. Extremely useful assembly / bill of materials support -- better than any competing software that I am aware of. Good integration support. For years, our company searched for an inventory management software that could integrate with our ecommerce, bick-and-mortar point of sale, and accounting softwares as well as support the inventory processes of light manufacturing. Unleashed surprised us by offering all of this. Since switching from another brand-name SAAS IM system, we haven't looked back.

Support is helpful, however we've had one issue with an integration that took a fairly long time to resolve. A native Woo Commerce integration would be nice, as would integrated barcode printing capabilities.

It's cloud based and readily accessible. Reports are great as well. Gives you a good take on sales & purchasing history.

You guys need to make a full functional app for ipad & have a CRM other than Salesofrce to integrate to the program. My stock levels are also continually out &

The easy features but yet powerful to see profit, landing cost and so on. Of course the cloud features, also printing template were very good

Too expensive. Too slow in reloading pages, and customer service too weird. I complained for the price increase, they told me they could not do anything.. so I unsubscribe and started migrating to a new system and only then, they offer me a 50% discount forever... what a waste of time.

Excellent feature set. Slick UI and very good performance (often an issue with cloud solutions). Apart from the software itself, the customer support is top-notch.

You shouldn't underestimate the time it takes to get going. Planning and executing the migration is one thing. Also factor in the effort required to get used to Unleashed concepts and UI. On another point, it's annoying that a lot of things are not modifiable after a certain (e.g. changing the origin and destination once you've added a line item; similar issue for creating assemblies).

Cloud Based Software, so I can track my business everywhere I go, and the customise Report feature really help me to determine which report that I need.

Still overprice for the subscription, if It can lower the price, it will help a lot of small business like me.

* Integrates with Quickbooks Online cloud accounting software; * Personal touch from professional engagement team; * Low entry cost; * Scaleable with enhanced functionalities as the business grows; * Straight talking - won't sell you what the software can't do

* SMALL version doesn't have functional document designer to customise client forms; * Next price tier is significant - moves from $59/month to $199/month

Cloud-based, easy to use. It integrates straight into Xero (cloud-based accounting software which is awesome too). The Unleashed mobile app is good too - giving an instant look at all orders before we visit a customer. We would have died under the admin/logistics burden if we didn't have Unleashed - it allowed us to launch a new company and ramp up to annual run rate revenue in under 4 months.

It takes some work setting up the system and each new production run batch. It required a few calls with the Unleashed support team to understand how to set things up, but once done we were fine.

Easy to set up through importing of templates. Very good integration, especially to Xero. Nice ease of use and easy learning curve which is standard for cloud apps these days. Very "Xero-ish" in its look and feel.

Global search across SKUs not optimised. Some sales functionality missing, such as different currency by sales order. Little ability to perform ad-hoc cost of production analytics in Excel of BI for example - other than via the API.

cloud based system, easy to use and complete dashboard in you face on a daily basis. Easy to train staff on how to use the software as it's intuitive. Love the help desk support and normally resolve a problem within a day.

Reporting... There are some reports that I need out of the system where I can't get the information required unless I create a number of reports and then spend hours merging them. It would be good to have some sort of report writer to be able to do the reports that aren't in the standard list. Backorder releases... this is a time consuming exercise if you have multiple BO for the same product. My...

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I like the ease of use and the fact that it is cloud based, so all our team can use it and update and sync, when needed. I also like the app that means I can access orders from my phone or my iPad, which is useful.

We dislike the inability to show batches on invoices. Also, although free tutorials can be access on line, it is difficult in that there is no call centre for users to phone up and access instant help with queries.

Masses of features, very easy to use, simple integration with Xero.

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