---
title: subscriptionContractActivate - Customer API
description: >-
  Activates a Subscription Contract. Contract status must be either active,
  paused, or failed.
api_version: 2025-07
api_name: customer
type: mutation
api_type: graphql
source_url:
  html: >-
    https://shopify.dev/docs/api/customer/2025-07/mutations/subscriptionContractActivate
  md: >-
    https://shopify.dev/docs/api/customer/2025-07/mutations/subscriptionContractActivate.md
---

# subscription​Contract​Activate

mutation

Activates a Subscription Contract. Contract status must be either active, paused, or failed.

## Arguments

* subscription​Contract​Id

  [ID!](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/customer/2025-07/scalars/ID)

  required

  The ID of the subscription contract to activate.

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## Subscription​Contract​Activate​Payload returns

* contract

  [Subscription​Contract](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/customer/2025-07/objects/SubscriptionContract)

  The activated Subscription Contract.

* user​Errors

  [\[Subscription​Contract​Status​Update​User​Error!\]!](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/customer/2025-07/objects/SubscriptionContractStatusUpdateUserError)

  non-null

  The list of errors that occurred from executing the mutation.

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## Examples

* ### subscriptionContractActivate reference