Easyship vs Katana

Easyship is a shipping platform specialized in cross-border e-commerce. Founded in Hong Kong and now operating with teams across Asia, Europe and North America, it lets online stores compare rates from more than 250 courier services, print labels and, most importantly, show international buyers the full landed cost, including duties and import taxes, before they pay.

The platform connects to Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Amazon, eBay, Etsy and other channels, imports orders automatically and suggests the cheapest or fastest courier for each shipment based on rules you define. It generates commercial invoices and customs paperwork, offers discounted pre-negotiated rates, shipping insurance and branded tracking pages with email notifications. A tax and duty calculator can be embedded in checkout so that buyers are not surprised by charges on delivery, and Easyship also provides fulfillment services in some regions and is widely used by crowdfunding campaigns shipping rewards to backers worldwide. A free plan covers a limited number of shipments per month; paid plans (Plus, Premier and Scale) raise volume and add automation, team accounts and analytics.

Easyship is a strong choice for small and mid-sized brands that sell abroad and want to reduce abandoned carts and refused deliveries caused by unexpected duties. Merchants who ship mostly domestically may get more from local tools: ShipStation and Pirate Ship cover US domestic shipping well, while Sendcloud is deeper for European carriers and returns.

Katana is a cloud manufacturing ERP built in Tallinn, Estonia, for small and mid-size manufacturers and brands that make their own products. It gives a real-time view of raw materials, work in progress and finished goods, and ties sales orders to production and purchasing so a business knows what it can make, what it needs to buy and when orders will ship.

Core modules cover inventory across multiple locations, multilevel bills of materials and recipes, production scheduling with a drag-and-drop priority list, purchasing with reorder points, batch and serial number tracking, and a shop floor app for operators. Native integrations with Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, QuickBooks Online and Xero sync sales orders and accounting, and an API and Zapier extend it further. A free plan covers up to 30 SKUs with unlimited users, while the custom-priced Advantage plan adds unlimited SKUs, custom integrations and a success manager on an annual contract.

Katana fits cosmetics, food and beverage, furniture, apparel and electronics makers that sell online or wholesale and have outgrown spreadsheets. Growing businesses may find the jump to custom pricing steep, and large manufacturers needing complex costing, quality management or multi-entity accounting will look at full ERPs. MRPeasy is a cheaper, more traditional alternative, Cin7 and inFlow focus on inventory for resellers, and Odoo offers manufacturing within a broader open-source ERP.