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Changes to Balance Rewards for Healthy Choices API

Tue, 08/20/2019 - 11:27 - Drew Schweinfurth

Hello all,

We wanted to inform you about some changes we have made to the Balance Rewards for Healthy Choices (BRhc) API program. The API service contract is exactly the same and you still have the same workflow for authentication, tracking, and synchronizing the healthy choices activity data. However, there is one small change in that we have shortened the expiry time of auth_tokens, access token are now only valid for 24 hours, and refresh tokens are now valid for 90 days.

Since the inception of the BRhc API we have be measuring healthy outcomes from the aggregated activity data. We have even been innovating on our own Employee health plan as a result of this measurement to rewarding continuous achievements. Based on some research and the evidence based information we have decided to make a change to the entire BRhc API user rewarding mechanism.

So instead of only rewarding points for the synchronization of healthy activities data the user will have to select a 4-week lifestyle or 4-week physical challenge on the BRhc Dashboard and their data will get synchronized with your integration of the API.As new achievements with the dynamic challenges are completed the Balance Rewards member will continuously be rewarded with points. Once the 4-week challenge is completed the user will be able to spin a wheel for a bonus reward (it's an extremely rewarding moment) and sign up for a new challenge thereby helping further improve the healthy outcomes of the API.

You can see below the new rewards mechanism as we have listed them on our API documentation:

  • 100 points each week a healthy challenge is completed; maximum of 400 points total per challenge
  • NOTE: Members can join two challenges (one lifestyle challenge and one healthy activity challenge) simultaneously
  • BONUS: Complete all 4 challenge weeks to earn a prize wheel spin worth up to 2000 points
  • BONUS: 250 points for connecting a compatible health & fitness device/app; up to 2 per month

Thanks,

@WalgreensAPI





Photo Price Changes 4/4/2019

Thu, 04/04/2019 - 13:45 - Drew Schweinfurth

Hello all,

We just wanted to send a quick update on some change of prices for some of the photo products offered in the Photo Prints API. Please see the changes below:

  • 8x10 Canvas: $34.99 $39.99
  • 12x12 Canvas: $39.99 $49.99
  • 12x12 Collage Canvas: $44.99 $49.99
  • 16x20 Canvas: $69.99 $89.99
  • 16x20 Collage Canvas: $74.99 $89.99
  • 5x7 Wood Panel: $16.99 $24.99
  • 5x7 Wood Panel Collage: $17.99 $24.99
  • 8x10 Wood Panel: $19.99 $39.99
  • 8x10 Wood Panel Collage: $21.99 $39.99
  • 11x14 Metal Panel: $39.99 $59.99
  • 8x10 Custom Floating Frame: $39.99 $49.99

All these changes will be returned in the Product Price Endpoint by End of Day today and will reflect in your CJ account tomorrow. If you would like to checkout any additional products for your integration of the Photo Prints API just head over to the Photo Product Product Catelog on our site and ping us on your Basecamp project or contact us at apibizdev@walgreens.com

Thank you,

The Walgreens API Team





New Feedback Survey - 2018

Mon, 10/01/2018 - 16:23 - Drew Schweinfurth

It's that time of year again where we like to reach out to our awesome community of developer to gather feedback on our API Program.
 
In the interest of improving our program we want to gather your feedback about our API Program and API product catalog. It only takes about 5 minutes to fill out and massively affects how we set our roadmap for the next year. You can access the survey here:
https://goo.gl/forms/PybBNJAlILTNsF1y1
 
Thank You,
 
Walgreens API Team
@Walgreens API




Revenue Share Update

Mon, 10/01/2018 - 16:19 - Drew Schweinfurth

Hello, we have an important update for the API program and wanted to let everyone know about them beyond just a mass email:
 
Migration of Revenue Share Portal:
If you have been connected with us for a while you are well aware of the wagapireports.com portal for viewing your revenue share. As we strive to enhance our revenue share line(s) of business under our API portfolio our next step is to migrate our partners to Commission Junctions full platform. If you created your PublisherID on wagapireports.com for photo revenue share you will need to follow the steps below:     
 
Three key benefits to you in doing so:
  • Opens up your revenue opportunities and scalability
  • Reporting, management and optimization tools provide a robust experience that allow more control
  • Benefits of the network effect will grow your Business exponentially 
 
Two key events to anticipate:
  • Update your app's PID      
  • One month’s payment may be delayed depending on when you update your PID 
 
That being said, we ask you to:
  1. Register for the new portal here: https://signup.cj.com/member/signup/publisher/?cid=3655651
  2. Once registered you will need to go to the menu: Account >> Websites
  3. Create a new website by providing a Name, and URL, Category, and Description. 
  4. Once added you will see a number on-top of the words “Active” that is your new PublisherID
 
Your new PublisherID will need to be incorporated into all your apps in a new build. We’ll help provide any testing or validation services that need to be conducted to ensure continuity. We’d be more than happy to jump on a call to discuss in more detail, simply let us know. 
 
We plan to decommission the old portal and any old publisherID’s by: January 1st, 2019 giving you about 3 months to migrate over to a new publisherID. If you do not migrate over to a new publisherID by 1/1/2019 you app will no longer be receiving revenue share for any orders you create. Also, if you have already migrated over to Commission Junctions full platform you can ignore this update.
 
 
Thank You,
Walgreens API Team
@Walgreens API




Happy Holidays, we have some news!

Mon, 12/11/2017 - 16:31 - Drew Schweinfurth

The Walgreens API Team has been hard at work as we approach the holiday to get some very exciting news launched on our developer portal. We wanted to give you all a few updates to our API platform.

We are extremely happy to let everyone know about the awesome feature enhancements and new APIs that we are rolling out by the end of this January 2018:

Photo Prints HTML Checkout:

We have been working diligently on some backend upgrades to our HTML Checkout Photo Prints API. Keep looking for these changes as we have more news coming over the next month. We have converted over to a NodeJS backend which should provide for a faster loading and snappier mobile web page experience.

Store Locator API:

Last year we announced the Beta Store Locator API. We are overjoyed to see all the people that have started/finished integration of this API their application(s). We got feedback that you wanted a way to get all the store numbers for all the Walgreens stores. Well, we listened and you can now use the Store Number List Endpoint to get this data.

Add To Cart API: (beta)

We are also excited to give access for everyone to create Walgreens.com Carts in their applications! Allowing your users to take advantage of creating a new cart directly in your user experience and navigating them checkout on walgreens.com! This API is in beta and we look forward to seeing it grow as the community adopts it. The documentation for this API is public now on the developer portal: Add To Cart API

We hope all this information is a nice gift for the upcoming holidays! Check back later for more information, and as always, if you have any comments, questions, and/or concerns please send an email to: apibizdev@walgreens.com

Happy Holidays,

The Walgreens API Team