Business Investments

Business Investments lets any player invest resources, weapons, or drugs into supported businesses. Open it from F3 > General. It appears in normal white text with a blank status.

Businesses can consume up to $100,000 of input value per hour.

Local businesses

Local businesses return the invested value plus 20% on supported investments.

Business	Accepted investments
RON Fuel Tech petrol stations	Oil, Nitrous, Electronics
Pay and Spray	Iron, Engine Parts, Chemicals
Transfender mod shops	Iron, Engine Parts, Electronics
Ammunation	Iron, Explosives
SA Food LLC	Seeds, Wheat, Herbs, Fish, Hemp, Meat

Conversion businesses

Conversion businesses process up to $100,000 of value per hour at a 1:1 rate unless listed otherwise.

Business	Inputs	Output
Electronics Factory	Gold, Oil, Chemicals	Electronics
Engine Parts Factory	Iron, Oil, Electronics	Engine Parts
Nitrous Factory	Oil, Chemicals	Nitrous
Chemicals Factory	Oil, Med Kits, Nitrous, Drug: Crack, Drug: Speed, Drug: God, Drug: LSD, Drug: Steroids	Chemicals
Oil Refinery	Chemicals, Engine Parts, Electronics	Oil
Weed Oil Factory	Weed	Oil at `90%` of the input market value
SA Scrapyard / Iron Factory	Uranium, Engine Parts	Iron

Factories do not require rental. Use /gps > Factories, visit a factory and deposit accepted resources. Inputs and outputs are private to the depositing account. Processing continues at full normal speed while that player is offline.

Processing and daily earnings

Factories, also called Conversion Businesses, turn accepted inputs into output resources. You do not need to rent a factory. Use /gps > Factories, go to the factory, and deposit one accepted resource or a mixture of accepted resources.

Processing is up to $100,000 of resource value per hour, using the Average prices in F7 > Sell.
Processing runs in 10-minute batches, 6 per hour.
The hourly limit counts for each kind of factory on its own, so two different factories can run at the same time, each at full speed.
From August to October 2026, factories converted about $18,000 of input every 10 minutes, counted at the Average prices in F7 > Sell. That is about $108,000 an hour. The in-game panel says up to $100,000 per hour.
Normal conversion is 1:1 by value, not by item count; Weed Oil Factory has a 10% processing loss.
When several accepted inputs are deposited, each batch uses only one type; types are not taken in a fixed rotation.
An input remainder worth less than one output item stays until you add more or take it back.
You can earn up to $500,000 per day from the factory system. This daily earnings limit is separate from the hourly processing rate.
A factory does not stop after a certain amount in one day. It keeps converting all day. You can also take more than $500,000 of Money out of your factories in one day.

The current factory types are:

Chemicals Factory: uses Oil, Med Kits, Nitrous, Drug: Crack, Drug: Speed, Drug: God, Drug: LSD, and Drug: Steroids to produce Chemicals.
Electronics Factory: uses Gold, Oil, and Chemicals to produce Electronics.
Nitrous Factory: uses Chemicals and Oil to produce Nitrous.
Engine Parts Factory: uses Iron, Oil, and Electronics to produce Engine Parts.
Oil Refinery: uses Chemicals, Engine Parts, and Electronics to produce Oil.
Weed Oil Factory: uses Drug: Weed to produce Oil with a 10% processing loss.
SA Scrapyard: uses Uranium and Engine Parts to produce Iron.

Factories continue processing at their full normal speed while the player is offline.

Conversion Business inputs and outputs are tied to the depositing player's account. Each player who opens the factory panel sees only their own resources and can withdraw only their own deposited inputs or produced outputs. Group members and other players cannot see or take them. Renting a factory is not required.

What generates local business income

Business	Player activity
RON Fuel Tech	Refuelling
Pay and Spray	Repairs
Transfender	Vehicle modifications
Ammunation	Weapon purchases in state stores
SA Food LLC	Food purchases anywhere in SA

Activity dependent businesses show Net Worth on their panel.

Business Investments

Local businesses

Conversion businesses

Processing and daily earnings

What generates local business income

See also