Currently, subscriptions (when purchased from the e-commerce store) containing physical products create an order initially. This allows for shipping/tracking information, fulfillment updates, etc... Upon automatic renewal, a new order is not created.
With physical products for our specific use case, these products will be sent monthly to subscribers and the usual notifications for customers will need to be manually input from pirate ship, since no integration exists for them yet.
Any subscription should have an option to create a new order for the customer subscribed.