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Open Settings → Operations & forms → Microchip registry. The page is headed Public chip registry. This is RescueConsole’s own chip registry, shared by every rescue on RescueConsole: another shelter or a vet who scans an animal you have, or had, can trace the chip back to you. It is not a commercial registry such as 24Pets or HomeAgain, and listing a chip here does not register it with one. Everybody who can open Settings can read this page. Only an Organization admin can switch publishing on or off, or save the contact.

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Publishing

Publishing is off until somebody turns it on. While it is off, somebody who scans one of your animals cannot reach you through the registry. Press Publish our chip numbers to turn it on. Every animal in your care that has a chip number is listed straight away, not only animals you add from now on. After that, an animal’s listing is added or brought up to date whenever its record changes: a chip number typed in, a new name, a change of breed. Press Stop publishing to turn it off. Every one of your listings is removed straight away.

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What is listed

The chip number is kept scrambled. A search can confirm a number somebody already has in front of them, and nobody can browse the list.
Anyone can search the registry by chip number, signed in or not. That is the point: the person holding the scanner is usually neither. What is listed above is what a stranger sees.
How a search reads to the person searching is on registry search.

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Found-animal contact

The contact shown to whoever searches a chip you have published. It is kept separate from the contact on your public site on purpose: a stray turns up at eleven at night, and the address you give adopters is rarely the one somebody is watching then. Press Save contact. If you publish without a contact, the page says You are publishing with no contact. Searchers will only see your organization’s name. Publishing still works: a finder can look your organization up.