The Money Fronts update is a major content update for Grand Theft Auto Online, released on June 17, 2025. The update's main theme is allowing players to hide their criminal activities behind legitimate businesses, introducing a new car wash property that functions as a front for money laundering operations in Los Santos.
Overview / Description
The Money Fronts update expands the business management gameplay loop in GTA Online, building on the foundation of previous updates like Further Adventures in Finance and Felony. The core concept allows players to purchase and operate a seemingly legitimate car wash business.
This enterprise serves as a front to launder illicit earnings, providing a new stream of semi-passive income. The update was part of the major summer 2025 update for the game, continuing Rockstar Games' long-term support for GTA Online.
New Content
New Features / Systems
The primary new feature is the money laundering business system. Players can use a new car wash property to clean their dirty money, integrating it into their criminal empire. Here's everything you need to know about the new Money Fronts businesses and missions.
Properties
Car Wash: A new purchasable business property that serves as a front for money laundering operations.
Missions / Jobs / Activities
The update introduces new activities centered around the money-laundering business. The update introduces several new ways to earn money and engage with the criminal underworld of Los Santos, focusing on both legitimate fronts and illicit operations.
Here's a breakdown of the key missions, jobs, and activities:
Legal Work
These missions represent the legitimate side of your business, offering a way to earn a modest income while also reducing your "Heat" level. These are not meant to be played for profit but to decrease the "Heat" level of your business. There are three businesses:
- Car Wash Mission: For the Hands On Car Wash, this legal job tasks you with picking up a client's car, bringing it back to your car wash for a thorough cleaning, and then delivering it back to their residence. The cleaner you keep the vehicle, the higher your tip will be, with potential earnings just under $2,000 per mission. These missions are crucial for keeping your Car Wash's Heat level down.
- Higgins Helitours (Legal Job): This involves running legitimate helicopter tours for clients, similar to the Car Wash's legal job, to reduce Heat for the Helitours business.
- Smoke on the Water (Legal Job): Similar to the other businesses, this involves a legal operation for the weed shop, where you sell weed to clients across Los Santos, which also helps lower the Smoke on the Water's Heat.
Money Laundering Missions
These are the core illegal operations of your new businesses and serve as your primary source of income. Each business has its own unique set of these missions.
- Car Wash Money Laundering Missions: There are four distinct variants for the Car Wash. A common example involves traveling to a specific location to steal a car from a container. Once the vehicle is secured, you'll either deliver it to Hao's Special Works or, if you own one, take it to your Salvage Yard to be scrapped for cash. The final step is to deliver the ill-gotten cash back to your Car Wash to complete the mission. These missions are quick, generally taking around 10 minutes or less, and offer approximately $35,000 per completion.
- Higgins Helitours Money Laundering Missions: Like the Car Wash, the Helitours business features four unique money laundering mission variants. For example, one of the missions involves stealing a helicopter or protecting your helitour clients from enemies as they storm the tour yacht.
- Smoke on the Water Money Laundering Missions: This weed shop also has four different money laundering mission variants, focused on illegal activities related to the drug trade. It will involve destroying rival weed farms or stealing rival weed raw material used to make weed.
Mr. Faber Work (Contact Missions)
The Mr. Faber Work is a new series of six contact missions that delve deeper into the narrative surrounding Mr. Faber. They are more extensive and offer decent payouts, especially if you complete bonus objectives.
You can start these missions from the laptop inside any of your three business properties (Car Wash, Smoke on the Water, or Higgins Helitours). Check out our main hub to learn more about Mr. Faber Work missions.
Business Safe Income
Your Cash Wash Business Safe provides a passive income stream directly from your Car Wash, with its efficiency influenced by your other acquired businesses. This safe passively generates income. If you own all the new Money Fronts businesses (along with already existing businesses in GTA Online), it can produce around $32,250 every in-game day (48 minutes in real-time).
Red Harvest Daily Collectible
Every real-world day, ten Red Harvest weed bags will randomly spawn across various locations in Los Santos. Collecting each bag grants you $7,500 and 500 RP. If you manage to collect all ten bags within the day, you'll receive an additional $25,000 bonus, bringing your total daily earnings from this activity to a lucrative $100,000 and 5,000 RP.
QuickiePharm
QuickiePharm is a new type of free roam mission offering quick payouts for delivery services. You're tasked with delivering medical supplies to various locations around the map.
Learn more about these activities and how to complete them by checking out our Money Fronts DLC guide.
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