Kladana
by Kladana Pvt. Ltd.
Light manufacturingProprietary SaaSPartially verified
A low-cost cloud inventory, sales and production system from Mumbai: multi-level BOMs with routings and labor costs, production orders that write off materials as operations complete, a shop-floor app, batches with expiry, and supply suggestions from sales orders. Manufacturing is a $43-a-month add-on on paid plans from $24 a month.
Why it is classified this way
We call this a Light manufacturing product. Has bills of materials or recipes, consumes stock when you build, and tracks production, but time-phased planning is not verified.
It is not labeled Full MRP because we have not verified that it accepts dated demand, sales orders, a forecast, or a master production schedule; explodes requirements through at least one level of the bill of materials; uses lead times or required dates; and produces dated buy, make, transfer, release, or reschedule recommendations. That is a statement about the evidence we found, not a claim that the product is weak, see the capability table and the sources below.
The six Full MRP tests, and how Kladana does on each (2 of 6)
- YesIt represents a bill of materials, recipe, or formula.Evidence: support.kladana.com › Bills of Materials(opens in a new tab); kladana.com(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Production Orders(opens in a new tab)
- PartialIt accepts dated demand, sales orders, a forecast, or a master production schedule.Not established. Only partly shown: the evidence covers some of this but not all of it, so the test is not established.
- YesIt nets that demand against stock on hand and orders already incoming.Evidence: support.kladana.com › Supply Stock Replenishment(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Committed and Awaiting stock in the sale process(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Manage awaiting stock(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Production Orders(opens in a new tab)
- PartialIt explodes requirements through at least one level of the bill of materials.Not established. Only partly shown: the evidence covers some of this but not all of it, so the test is not established.A production order lists the raw materials of its BOMs with planned quantities, and "If the On hand is less than the Qty Planned, click Supply" to buy, make or transfer the shortfall, including production orders for semi-finished items. Sales orders turn into production orders through Stock Replenishment, so explosion happens one production order at a time rather than in a planning run across all demand. support.kladana.com › Production Orders(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Supply Stock Replenishment(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Semi Finished Products Tracking(opens in a new tab)
- PartialIt uses lead times or required dates.Not established. Only partly shown: the evidence covers some of this but not all of it, so the test is not established.
- PartialIt produces dated buy, make, transfer, release, or reschedule recommendations.Not established. Only partly shown: the evidence covers some of this but not all of it, so the test is not established.
These rules are applied identically to every product and enforced at build time, a record cannot be published as Full MRP unless all six pass with a source attached. Read the methodology.
Best for
- Small manufacturers on a tight budget who want production orders, routings and labor costs in one web app
- Workshops that want operators to report operations from a browser-based shop-floor app
- Food, cosmetics and garment makers who need batches with expiry dates and FIFO costing
Not a fit when
- Anyone who needs dated purchase suggestions driven by lead times; the help center documents neither
- Makers who build serial-numbered products, since serial-tracked items cannot be used in production
- Buyers who want accounting connected directly: QuickBooks, Xero and Zoho go through a paid third-party connector
Pricing facts
What it costs to do manufacturing in this product.
Free plan
1 user, 1 company, 200 items, 200 counterparties, 200 transactions and 50 MB of storage. The Production module is not available on it.
Free plan
$0/month
Advertised from
$5/month
Useful entry price
$67/month
Billing basis
Mixed
Why the useful price is higher
The $5 headline is the Start plan, sold only annually ($60 a year), and it cannot take the Production module. Manufacturing needs Growth or above plus the Production Module add-on, priced at $43 a month: Growth at $24 billed monthly plus $43 comes to $67 a month. Paid yearly, the MRP page puts the plan with the manufacturing module at "$563/year", about $47 a month.
Free trial: 14 days.
What moves the real bill
- Required add-ons. The manufacturing capability needs: Production Module.
Plans
| Plan | Price | Add-ons and setup |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | — |
| 1 company, 200 items, 200 counterparties, 200 transactions, 50 MB storage. No Production module. | ||
| StartBilled yearly, shown per month | $5/mo · 1 users included | — |
| 1 company, unlimited items and transactions, 100 MB storage. No Production module. "Only annually": $60 a year. Prices on the pricing page's "Month billed annualy" line; the year is charged up front. | ||
| GrowthBilled monthly | $24/mo · 2 users included, then $7 each | Production Module $43/mo |
| 2 companies, 0.5 GB storage. | ||
| GrowthBilled yearly, shown per month | $17/mo · 2 users included, then $7 each | Production Module (unpriced) |
| 2 companies, 0.5 GB storage. $202 a year. Prices on the pricing page's "Month billed annualy" line; the year is charged up front. The pricing page gives the Production Module as $43 a month without an annual figure; the MRP page says "$563/year for the plan with the manufacturing module". | ||
| BusinessBilled monthly | $49/mo · 5 users included, then $7 each | Production Module $43/mo |
| 5 companies, 2 GB storage. | ||
| BusinessBilled yearly, shown per month | $34/mo · 5 users included, then $7 each | Production Module (unpriced) |
| 5 companies, 2 GB storage. $412 a year. Prices on the pricing page's "Month billed annualy" line; the year is charged up front. No annual figure for the Production Module is printed. | ||
| Business PlusBilled monthly | $89/mo · 10 users included, then $7 each | Production Module $43/mo |
| Unlimited companies, 10 GB storage. | ||
| Business PlusBilled yearly, shown per month | $62/mo · 10 users included, then $7 each | Production Module (unpriced) |
| Unlimited companies, 10 GB storage. $748 a year. Prices on the pricing page's "Month billed annualy" line; the year is charged up front. No annual figure for the Production Module is printed. | ||
Cheapest paid plan that manufactures, by paid users
- 1 user: Growth + Production Module, at least $17 a month (billed yearly, shown per month); first year at least $204, not counting Production Module (no published price).
- 5 users: Business + Production Module, at least $34 a month (billed yearly, shown per month); first year at least $408, not counting Production Module (no published price).
- 10 users: Business Plus + Production Module, at least $62 a month (billed yearly, shown per month); first year at least $744, not counting Production Module (no published price).
Pricing detail
Read from the rendered pricing page on 2026-10-09 from a US connection, where it shows USD; the page has an INR/USD switch and says "prices are exclusive of GST". We did not record the INR figures. Billed monthly: Growth $24, Business $49, Business Plus $89. Billed annually (shown as "Month billed annualy"): Start $5 ($60 a year, annual only), Growth $17 ($202), Business $34 ($412), Business Plus $62 ($748). Users: Free 1, Start 1, Growth 2, Business 5, Business Plus 10. Additional options: "Additional User $7 per month", 1000 MB storage $4, "For Production Module $43 per month", Workflow Option $19. The plan table marks Production as an option on Growth, Business and Business Plus and unavailable on Free and Start. Prepaying 3, 6 or 12 months gives 10%, 20% or 30% off. 14-day free trial, no card.
Checked on October 9, 2026. Source: kladana.com(opens in a new tab). Prices change. Check before you buy.
Manufacturing capability
22 of 25 fields resolved. "Unknown" means we have not found first-party evidence. It is not a No.
Planning
Working out what to buy or make, and when.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Accepts dated demandYou can tell it what is due and when, sales orders with dates, a forecast, or a production schedule. | Partial | Sales orders and internal orders drive replenishment, and production orders carry start and end dates ("Production Order start and end dates"). The help center does not show a required date on the sales order feeding a plan, and the forecast is a sales-rate report rather than dated demand.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Production Orders(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Supply Stock Replenishment(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › How to forecast sales(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Nets against stock on handIt subtracts what you already have before telling you to buy more. | Yes | Replenishment from sales orders can be sized "Based on available stock — calculates the quantity needed to fulfill the Sales Order", and available stock is defined as "Available = On hand — Committed + Awaiting".Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Supply Stock Replenishment(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Committed and Awaiting stock in the sale process(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Counts incoming ordersIt knows about purchase orders and production orders already placed, so it does not tell you to order twice. | Yes | Open purchase orders count as incoming stock: "Awaiting stock level is the number of items that you've purchased but haven't received yet", and it is added into Available. A production order can also be allocated to awaiting stock, so unfinished output shows as "In transit".Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Committed and Awaiting stock in the sale process(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Manage awaiting stock(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Production Orders(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Uses lead timesIt works backwards from when you need something to when you must order or start it, using supplier and production lead times. | Partial | The MRP page lists "Manage multi‑level BOMs, semi‑finished goods, and supplier lead times". No help article describes a lead time field or a date that moves because of one.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: kladana.com › Mrp software(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Produces dated buy/make suggestionsThe output is an actionable list with dates, order this much by this date, start this batch on this date. | Partial | The Purchasing Management report shows days of stock and a "To supply" quantity: "To supply - how much you need to supply according to product availability." Reorder points send alerts. None of these suggestions carries an order-by date.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › How to forecast sales(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Material planning(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Capacity planningChecks whether your people and machines can do the work in the time available. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of work-center or resource capacity being compared against load.Know the answer? |
Production
Recipes, bills of materials, and running the work.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Bill of materialsA list of the parts and quantities needed to make one of something. | Yes | The help center says a Bill of Materials holds "Production Routing by operations", "Raw materials and their quantity", "Production Operations costs" and "Standard production time."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Bills of Materials(opens in a new tab); kladana.com(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Multi-level BOMSub-assemblies inside assemblies, a part that is itself made from other parts, nested as deep as you need. | Yes | Semi-finished products have their own BOMs and go into the raw materials of a finished product's BOM: "Add semi-finished products to the Bills of Materials of finished products, to the Raw Materials tab." The homepage says: "Build multi-level BOMs with estimated labour and operation costs."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Semi Finished Products Tracking(opens in a new tab); kladana.com(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Recipes & formulasBatch-style production by weight, volume, or percentage, including scaling a batch up or down. | Partial | A production order scales its BOMs by a volume ratio: "Specify the Volume Ratio to determine the number of finished products." There are no percentage formulas or recipe versions in the articles we read.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Production Orders(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Work / manufacturing ordersA record authorising and tracking the making of a specific quantity. | Yes | Production orders hold "Finished products, their quantity, and Bills of Materials", operations and start and end dates. Completing an operation consumes stock: "Click ( → ) to mark the operations completed. Operation costs and raw materials specified in the Bill of Materials are written off." The Production module is a paid add-on, from the Growth plan up.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Production Orders(opens in a new tab); kladana.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Routings & operationsThe ordered steps a product goes through, and which machine or station does each one. | Yes | The routing article says: "Routing is a sequence of Production Operations." Each operation has a standard hour cost and a materials warehouse, and BOM materials are assigned to operations.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Production Operations and Routings(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Bills of Materials(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Shop-floor trackingOperators report progress, time, and completions as the work happens. | Yes | The Shop Floor App "allows production employees to access information about Production Orders in a user-friendly format, mark production operations as completed during Process Tracking, and view their wages for a specific period."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Shop Floor App(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Quality controlsChecks, tests, holds, and non-conformance records tied to production or receiving. | Partial | Quality checking is set up as a production operation: "Include Quality Checking as a Production operation", and during it you "identify non-quality products and adjust the quantity of finished products". There are no inspection records or test results.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Quality Checking in Production(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Inventory & traceability
Knowing what you hold and being able to trace it.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Batch & lot traceabilityWhich incoming material lots went into which finished batch, and where those finished goods went. | Partial | Batches are tracked through receiving, transfers and shipments, and the pricing page says you can "Assign Batch number to Finished products after Production Order is completed". No article shows which material batches went into a finished batch.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Batches and expiry dates(opens in a new tab); kladana.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Expiry & shelf lifeBest-before dates on materials and finished goods, with warnings before they lapse. | Yes | The batches article lists "Shipment of products with an earlier expiry date in the first place" and "Write off of expired products", with expiry dates set per batch.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Batches and expiry dates(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Serial numbersUnique identifiers on individual units, for warranty or field service. | Partial | Serial numbers are tracked on receiving, shipments and returns, but not in production: "You cannot use products with serial numbers in Production. Products tracked by serial numbers cannot be used as components or finished products."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Products with Serial Numbers(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Commerce & accounting
Costs, purchasing, storefronts, and the books.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Product costing & COGSWhat it costs you to make one, and the cost of the goods you sold. | Yes | Unit cost is FIFO in transactions ("in transactions U.cost is calculated based on the FIFO method"), and the pricing page describes production cost as "based on the cost of raw materials + manually added operation costs", with a plan-versus-actual report.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › How U cost is calculated(opens in a new tab); kladana.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| PurchasingRaising and tracking purchase orders to suppliers from inside the system. | Yes | Purchase orders are raised to suppliers and received, and a production order can create them for missing materials: "If the On hand is less than the Qty Planned, click Supply to order additional materials."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Purchase Orders(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Production Orders(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Accounting connectionSends financial data to bookkeeping software, or includes its own general ledger. | Yes | QuickBooks Online, Xero and Zoho Books connect through the Albato connector ("Integration is done through the Albato connector. It is free from the Kladana side."), which sends sales orders or invoices across. Tally gets a manual or partner-utility export.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Quickbooks Online integration(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Xero Integration(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Zoho Books Integration(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › Synchronization Options Between Kladana and Tally(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Ecommerce connectionPulls orders and pushes stock levels to a storefront or marketplace. | Yes | Shopify and WooCommerce have help articles; the WooCommerce one says it can "Synchronize product cards and stock between Kladana and WooCommerce" and pull orders into Kladana.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Shopify Integration(opens in a new tab); support.kladana.com › WooCommerce Integration(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Openness & your data
Getting data in, out, and away if you leave.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| APIA documented programming interface so other software can read and write your data. | Yes | A public JSON API is documented at dev.kladana.com ("Kladana JSON API" 1.2), and the pricing page lists API access on every plan, including Free.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: dev.kladana.com › 1.2(opens in a new tab); kladana.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| WebhooksThe system can notify other software the moment something changes. | Yes | The webhooks article says: "A webhook is a notification sent to an external system such as a CRM, online store, or call center." A change to a transaction sends its id and type to your URL.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Webhooks(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| MCP supportA Model Context Protocol server, letting an AI assistant read or act on this data. Useful, but it has nothing to do with whether the product plans materials. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: a first-party mcp server, or documentation of one.Know the answer? |
| CSV exportYou can get your lists out as spreadsheet files. | Yes | Product lists export to Excel: "You can export product lists and content cards with images from Kladana in Excel format." The pricing page lists ".xls Import & Export for Items and Transactions" on every plan.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: support.kladana.com › Exporting Product Items to Excel(opens in a new tab); kladana.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Full data exportYou can take everything, including history and relationships, not just a few screens' worth of rows. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of a complete account export, database dump, or equivalent.Know the answer? |
Deployment, licensing and your data
- Deployment
- Cloud (hosted for you)
- Licensing
- Proprietary SaaS
- Team sizes
- Just me, 2–5 people, 6–20 people
- Manufacturing styles
- Countable assembled products, Batch & recipe products
Integrations
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Magento
- Ecwid
- QuickBooks Online (via Albato)
- Xero (via Albato)
- Zoho Books (via Albato)
- Tally
Jobs this product qualifies for
Derived from the capability table above, not hand-assigned.
Editorial notes and cautions
Things we would want a friend to know before buying.
- The $5 and $60-a-year figures buy the Start plan, which has no manufacturing. Production is a $43-a-month add-on available from Growth up, so real entry is about $67 a month billed monthly.
- Prices shown to a US visitor are in USD and exclude GST; the page also has an INR switch. The company is registered in Mumbai.
- The QuickBooks Online, Xero and Zoho Books connections run through Albato, a separate no-code service with its own fees, and they push sales orders or invoices rather than inventory journals.
- Products tracked by serial number cannot be components or finished products in production.
Alternatives to Kladana
An alternative is always an alternative for a reason. There is no universal replacement.
- ERPAGBetter commerce & accounting connection
ERPAG connects to QuickBooks and Xero itself and includes manufacturing in its plans, rather than through a paid connector and a separate module.
- MRPeasyStronger true MRP
MRPeasy documents a full requirements run with supplier lead times and order-by dates, where Kladana stops at supply suggestions per order.
Evidence and verification
Partially verifiedLast checked October 9, 2026 · 88% of capability fields resolved · 100% of those carry a source
Why this record is not Verified. New record from one research pass on 2026-10-09. Held at partially verified until an editor re-reads the cited pages.
Researched 2026-10-09 from kladana.com, the rendered pricing page (prices load by script, so the page was rendered in headless Chrome), and the Zendesk help center at support.kladana.com, read through its public article index. The help center answers 403 to curl but loads in a browser and in headless Chrome. Many help articles predate 2025; each cited one was read on the day.
Sources we checked (18)
support.kladana.com
- 7349092456721 Production Orders(opens in a new tab)
- 7349036390673 Bills of Materials(opens in a new tab)
- 13132013704605 Semi Finished Products Tracking(opens in a new tab)
- 360018143378 Supply Stock Replenishment(opens in a new tab)
- 360011914997 Committed and Awaiting stock in the sale process(opens in a new tab)
- 8082376915857 Production Operations and Routings(opens in a new tab)
- 20098508796573 Shop Floor App(opens in a new tab)
- 10293602764061 Batches and expiry dates(opens in a new tab)
- 4435415727633 Products with Serial Numbers(opens in a new tab)
- 22941137609117 How U cost is calculated(opens in a new tab)
- 21398035848989 Quickbooks Online integration(opens in a new tab)
- 22867382125085 Shopify Integration(opens in a new tab)
- 6506436676381 Webhooks(opens in a new tab)
- 6506832487709 Exporting Product Items to Excel(opens in a new tab)
dev.kladana.com
What we still want to confirm
We publish our gaps rather than hiding them. If you can point us at a first-party page for any of these, we will update the record and credit the correction.
- Find a lead time field on suppliers or products and whether it shifts any suggested date. Only the MRP marketing page mentions supplier lead times.
- Confirm whether material batches consumed in a production order are linked to the finished batch.
- Confirm the annual price of the Production Module; the pricing page prints only $43 a month.
- Confirm whether a full account export exists beyond per-list Excel exports.
- Confirm whether there is a general ledger. The pricing page lists payments, P&L and cash-flow reports, but no ledger or journals.
Still unknown: capacity planning, mcp support, full data export.