Can I delete an auto-renewal subscription item even when there are subscribers?
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In my application, I have to create and remove many auto-renewal subscription items programmatically using an API. Like the YouTube app, when a user creates a channel, I will create a subscription item with their name, and when they shut down the channel, I will cancel the whole subscription and remove the item.
I found that I can create subscription items using the following API: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/create_an_auto-renewable_subscription
In the following document, I found that I can stop selling and cancel subscriptions at https://appstoreconnect.apple.com by changing the availability of item from "Cleared for Sale" to "Remove from Sale":
https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-subscriptions/set-availability-for-an-auto-renewable-subscription
My question is can I stop selling and cancel subscriptions using an API? The App Store Connect API offers modifying subscription availability, but it only offers changing sales countries: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/modify_an_auto-renewable_subscription
They also offer a subscription deletion API, but I'm not sure if it'll work as I need: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/delete_a_subscription
How do you manage auto-renewal subscription items when you stop selling them? Is there any API or do you do it manually?
Thank you.