What happens to subscriptions if I delete a product variant?

If you’ve deleted a variant and recreated it, you can manually swap affected subscriptions to the new variant.

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Apps > Ongoing Subscriptions.

2. Click Subscriptions in the sidebar.

3. Open the subscription you want to update.

4. Under the subscription, click Add Product.

5. Select the recreated variant (same product, new variant).

6. Enter the price you want for the subscription.

7. Remove the old product/variant from the subscription.

Repeat these steps for any other subscriptions affected.

Best practice

To avoid breaking active subscriptions, edit existing variants instead of deleting them. This way, the variant ID stays the same and subscriptions remain connected.

Need help?
If you have many subscriptions to update, contact our support team and we can help you with bulk changes.