- Short answer
- No — Managed Markets removes subscription plans on its international markets, but domestic orders keep working as subscriptions.
- One-time purchases
- International customers on Managed Markets can still buy products with a subscription option as a one-time purchase.
- Subscription-only products
- Automatically restricted and not displayed to your international customers.
- Before you turn it off
- Orders placed under Managed Markets can't be edited afterward — change them first.
What happens to subscription products under Managed Markets?
Managed Markets doesn't support products sold with a subscription selling plan. If your products are set up for subscriptions, the subscription selling plan is removed for all international markets managed by Managed Markets. Shopify lists subscription products among the categories Managed Markets restricts.
Shopify's requirements page puts it in two sentences:
Managed Markets doesn't support subscriptions. Subscriptions work only for domestic orders.
What happens to your international customers?
On the international markets Managed Markets manages, a product with a subscription option can still be bought as a one-time purchase. A product that is only available by subscription is automatically restricted and not displayed to your international customers.
No Shopify page we read — the Managed Markets prohibited-items, activation and deactivation pages, on September 28, 2026 — describes what happens to subscribers you already have abroad when Managed Markets turns on.
Do subscriptions come back if you take a market out of Managed Markets?
No Shopify page we read — the Managed Markets requirements, prohibited-items, activation and deactivation pages, on September 28, 2026 — says subscriptions return on a market you take out, and the quoted sentence names no exception for a market you manage yourself.
Separately, you can remove Managed Markets as the merchant of record for an individual market while keeping it active for your other markets, and deactivate it for a specific market or for your entire store. For how markets work on Shopify, see our Shopify Markets guide.
Deactivating has a cost: orders placed while Managed Markets was active can't be edited after you turn it off, and Shopify lists that among the changes that can't be reversed. Make any changes to those orders, such as the shipping address or the line items, before you deactivate.
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