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March 9, 2021

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# Subscription-only product availability for online stores

Products that require a subscription for purchase, but have no selling plans associated with the product variants, are no longer available for purchase in the Online Store sales channel. Previously, a product would become available as a one-time purchase if no selling plans were attached.

The Liquid property `requires_selling_plan` on Product and ProductVariants has been updated to reflect this change. The Liquid property still states whether a selling plan is required to purchase the product variant. Previously, the property would return `false` if the product was set as subscription-only in the admin, but had no selling plans associated with the product variants.

[Learn more](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/subscriptions/setup#subscription-products) about setting products as subscription only.