Everything you need to know about Document Forgery Office in GTA V Online

Document Forgery Office quick facts

What is the Document Forgery Office?

The Document Forgery Office is one of five MC production businesses added in the Bikers update on 4 October 2016. Your staff churn out forged documents: fake passports, driver licenses and IDs. Like every MC business, it produces stock automatically from supplies, and you sell the finished product in delivery missions.

To buy one you need an MC Clubhouse and you must be registered as an MC President. That is the whole entry requirement.

Here is the honest bit up front: Document Forgery is the least profitable of the five MC businesses. The Cocaine Lockup sits at the top of that ladder, followed by the Meth Lab, the Counterfeit Cash Factory and the Weed Farm. Forgery comes last. That does not make it useless, but it shapes everything else in this guide.

The best Document Forgery Office location

All four Document Forgery Offices are identical inside: same product, same production rate, same missions. The only differences are the price tag and where the building sits on the map, so buy the cheapest unless you specifically want a Los Santos address.

That makes Grapeseed (GTA$ 650,000) the pick. It sits in Blaine County close to the other MC businesses, which keeps your resupply and sell loops tight if you run several of them.

You can compare all four offices, their prices and price history on our Document Forgery Offices hub, and see exactly where each one sits on the GTA Online map.

Setting up your Document Forgery Office

After buying the office, you run a setup mission to steal your first batch of supplies. Forgery's steal variant has you meet a contact who is handing over identities to forge; the deal gets sniped, and you grab the supplies and get out.

Do the setup, and all your supply runs after it, in an invite-only or private session. Sourcing supplies in a public lobby just invites griefers to blow up cargo you have not been paid for yet.

Once the setup is done, the office produces automatically. Keep supplies topped up (or stolen, more on that below) and the stock bar fills on its own while you do literally anything else.

Document Forgery Office upgrades

Get Equipment and Staff as soon as you can. Equipment is the one that makes the business profitable at all when you buy supplies: it halves your supply bill while lifting the sale value. Together, Equipment and Staff raise a full batch's value by about 30%, from GTA$ 121,500 to GTA$ 157,500 to the furthest buyer.

Security is optional. It only reduces raid risk, and if you sell small batches regularly (the right way to run this business anyway), your stock rarely sits high enough to trigger raids in the first place.

Payouts and max profit

Here are the real numbers for a full 60-unit batch:

Always sell to the furthest buyer: delivering to the region your office is not in pays +50% over a local sale. From Grapeseed, that means selling to Los Santos.

A full batch takes about 5 hours to fill with no upgrades, or about 3 hours with Equipment and Staff.

Now the key honest fact. Supplies for a full batch cost about GTA$ 180,000 when bought with no upgrades, or about GTA$ 90,000 with the Equipment upgrade. So with no upgrades and bought supplies, you lose money: a GTA$ 121,500 furthest-buyer sale minus GTA$ 180,000 in supplies is -GTA$ 58,500 per batch. The office only turns a profit once you either buy the Equipment upgrade (a fully upgraded batch nets about GTA$ 67,500 to the furthest buyer after roughly GTA$ 90,000 in supplies) or steal all your supplies, in which case the whole sale is profit.

Even at its best, that works out to roughly GTA$ 22,500 per hour net, the lowest of the five MC businesses. For comparison, the Cocaine Lockup nets around GTA$ 67,500 per hour, three times as much from the same gameplay loop.

Selling your forged documents solo

Yes, you can run the Document Forgery Office solo, as long as you manage your stock. The number of delivery vehicles scales with how much you sell. Keep it to about 15 units or fewer (roughly a quarter of the 60-unit capacity, around GTA$ 28,350 of stock) and you get a single delivery vehicle you can handle alone. Sell a fuller batch and you get 2 to 4 vehicles (a full 60-unit batch spawns three or four), which really wants a second player.

So the solo Document Forgery sell strategy is simple: sell small and often, never one big batch.

One exception to the scaling rule: the Single Vehicle sell mission always uses just one vehicle no matter how much stock you carry (a Rat-Truck, Gang Burrito or Pounder depending on quantity). The vehicle count follows your stock on most rolls, not every one, but do not gamble a full batch on landing that mission.

The sell missions you can roll are: Bikes (1 to 4 Baggers), Boats (1 to 3 Dinghies), Sea Planes (1 to 3 Dodos), Trash Trucks (1 to 3 Trashmasters), and Single Vehicle (one truck).

The sell timer is 30 minutes, extended to 45 minutes when you launch the sale solo. Selling in a populated public lobby adds a High Demand bonus of up to +50% in a full session, but it also broadcasts your sale to every rival in the lobby, so weigh the extra cash against the risk.

There is also a fully remote route: a Nightclub technician can accrue forged documents for you as Printing and Copying goods with no supply runs at all, and the Arcade's Master Control Terminal lets you manage sales without driving back to Grapeseed. If hands-off money is the goal, see our passive income guide.

Is the Document Forgery Office worth it?

For active income, no. It is the least profitable MC business, and without the Equipment upgrade it loses money on bought supplies. Roughly GTA$ 22,500 per hour at its best is a bad hourly rate by modern GTA Online standards.

It is worth owning in three cases:

1. You have a Nightclub. The office feeds your warehouse passively as Printing and Copying goods. Be aware it is the lowest-value of the seven Nightclub goods, so it is the last technician you would assign, but it costs nothing to run once it is set up.

2. You are an MC completionist, or you want it sitting ready for a 2X money week, when the payout math briefly stops being embarrassing.

3. You just want the cheapest MC business to round out your empire.

If you actually want money, put your cash into the Cocaine Lockup, the Cayo Perico Heist, the Acid Lab or a Nightclub instead.

If you do buy it, the recommended active build is Grapeseed plus Equipment plus Staff for GTA$ 1,395,000 (add Security and it is GTA$ 1,680,000). At the best-case net, that takes well over 60 hours of buy-and-sell play to earn back, longer than any other MC business. Buy it for the reasons above, not for the grind.

Document Forgery Office FAQ

Is the Document Forgery Office worth it in GTA Online?

Not as an active earner: it is the least profitable of the five MC businesses. It is worth owning as a passive Nightclub feed, for MC completionists, or simply as the cheapest way into the MC business set.

What is the best Document Forgery Office location?

Grapeseed, at GTA$ 650,000. All four offices are identical inside, so the cheapest one wins. Compare all four on our Document Forgery Offices hub.

How much does the Document Forgery Office make?

A full 60-unit batch sells for up to GTA$ 157,500 to the furthest buyer when fully upgraded, which works out to roughly GTA$ 22,500 per hour net, the lowest of the MC businesses. Without the Equipment upgrade, bought supplies cost more than the sale pays and you lose money.

Can you run the Document Forgery Office solo?

Yes. Sell about 15 units or fewer to get a single delivery vehicle, and sell small and often instead of saving up a full batch, which can spawn up to 4 vehicles.

Why is my Document Forgery Office not producing?

Check the basics: finish the setup mission, make sure the supply bar is not empty, and stay registered as MC President. If you are waiting on Nightclub accrual, a technician assigned to a different good will not stock forged documents. A raid can also halt production until you deal with it.

Do you need a Nightclub for the Document Forgery Office?

No, the office works on its own. But a Nightclub is the main reason to own one: its technician generates Printing and Copying goods passively, with no supply runs.