backend_fiesta/services/tools/help/districts.md

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question	also	area	source
What is a district, and what happens when a partner is onboarded in a new one?	applocationid region not in the list riders not showing in a new city can I add a district	platform	repositories/partnerRepository.go

A district is the delivery region a partner works and a rider is placed in. It is not the same thing as a branch: a merchant has branches, a district covers whichever of them sit inside it.

Onboarding a partner into a district that is not open yet opens it. The district is created along with the operating defaults every rider query needs, copied from a district already running rather than invented. So a partner can be set up in a city Nearle has not traded in before, without a separate step.

This matters because a district that exists in name but has no operating configuration hides every rider placed in it. Riders can be created, they appear to save, and they are absent from every assign screen. The onboarding path creates both halves together so that state cannot be reached from the console.

A partner works one district. If a partner's riders are not appearing for a merchant, check that the merchant's branches are in the same district as the partner, before looking at the riders themselves.