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# Create a subscription through an order

> Learn to create a subscription by ordering products visible to the customer's organizational unit.

Learn to create a subscription by ordering products visible to the customer's organizational unit.

For order/subscription creation, the products users can select are the ones the selected account can buy. That is, a user can create an order for the products that are visible to the org unit the customer account belongs to.

Create a subscription by creating an order uusing the steps mentioned in Create a subscription using the Zuora UI.

Review the order and activate the subscription.

> **Note**
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> The list of products visible are the ones that belong to the customer org unit.

Create a subscription through order for the products associated with an organization's customer account using API Create a subscription via the Create an Order API

You can use the [Create an order](https://developer.zuora.com/v1-api-reference/api/operation/POST_Order/) operation to create a subscription.

Include the following header information to specify the Org Unit for which you are trying to create an order:

Zuora-Org-Ids - Specify the org unit to create an order

* If you specify an Org that the user does not have access to, order creation will fail.
* If you do not set this header, the order creation will happen for the user’s default org unit.