Do subscription products work with Shopify Managed Markets?

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:

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.

Should you turn on Managed Markets if you sell subscriptions?

Decide by what your international customers buy. Managed Markets also changes who sells to them. With Shopify Markets on its own, you remain the merchant of record, "so tax registration, duties, and customs compliance stay your responsibility." Managed Markets adds Global-e as the merchant of record and takes those responsibilities on for a per-order fee.

In Shopify's feature comparison, you use Shopify Payments for domestic transactions and Managed Markets for international ones. The Managed Markets merchant of record disclaimer appears only to customers in the markets it manages, and "your domestic checkout remains unchanged."

• If your international buyers mostly order once, the one-time option on your subscription products stays on sale there; only subscription-only products are hidden.
• If subscriptions carry your international sales, turning Managed Markets on removes those plans on every market it manages and hides subscription-only products there. What happens to subscribers you already have there isn't described on the Shopify pages we read — see above. The alternative is to leave it off and stay your own merchant of record abroad. Shopify's exchange-rates page adds one rule for subscription products sold in multiple currencies: the conversion rate "stays the same as the first order that your customer places."
• If you want Managed Markets on some markets and subscriptions on others, read the next section first: you can take a single market out of Managed Markets, but no Shopify page we read says subscriptions return there.

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.