How can I do the reverse of a regular PayPal transaction? (Pay out to the customer rather than them paying us)

Question

How can I do the reverse of a regular PayPal transaction. The only information I found in their documents was for the customer to pay us for things. What if we want to pay out the customer?

Is there a way to give a transaction type to reverse and pay out to the customer instead of them paying us?

Update: Turns out you can use Mass Payments to pay out to customers... just needed to look on StackOverflow a bit more (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1559808/paypal-api-send-money-to-any-paypal-account). My apologies.

Answer 1

What if you just used the customer's paypal account as the destination address? That would send them the money, but they would end up paying the paypal transaction fees.