Recurring and Subscription Payments

[Mitchell Kotler]

Hi,

I recently started to try out django-paypal and getting single
payments set up and working was quite straight forward and easy. I am
now trying to get recurring payments working and am slightly confused
about a few things:

1) What is the difference between recurring and subscription?

2) Following the example in the readme, I have set up a form to set up
a subscription. Upon going through, I get a subscription signup
signal, but no recurring create signal. I also receive an IPN post of
type 'subscr_payment' but django paypal seems to have no signal
corresponding to this. When do I receive any of the recurring
signals? Will future payments be subscription payment or recurring
payment?

3) Is there a way to test these other signals? Testing a single
payment or subscription sign up is easy enough using the sandbox, but
how do I trigger other recurring (payment, payment failure, cancels,
modifies, etc) IPN posts to my site?

Thanks everyone for the help,
-Mitch