Parsing PayPal Subscription Ran Out

Question

On PayPal subscriptions, it appears that all I need to do is treat it like a regular IPN except look at the txn_type field. When I see one of the following stat

Answer 1

If you've gone through the subscription button mechanism, and it's not one of the pre-approved recurring payment things then you'll only see the "subscr" prefixed ones, I think.

I personally don't respond to "subscr_cancel" in my app. The IPN for that is sent the moment the users cancels. I don't want to disable their access at that point so I wait for the "subscr_eot" one and do it then.

So if they sign up for a year, and cancel the next day, they still have access to the end of the year, which is when PayPal will send the "subscr_eot". They'll always send both.