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Walgreens is proud to introduce Culture Greetings as a new integration of the Photo Prints API. Culture Greetings is a woman-led, Black-owned greeting card brand, founded in 2018.

On their website, Culture Greetings allows customers to choose a greeting card, write a personal note using handwritten fonts that mirror real penmanship and click “send,” which cues their state-of-the-art printing press. Traditionally, the company prints and mails the card directly to the recipient the following business day. 

Through this integration with the Walgreens Photo Prints API and Store Locator APIs, in addition to the Culture Greetings flagship mail to recipient delivery option, customers will now have the choice to pick up their customized cards at a local Walgreens for pickup within the hour!

“The launching of this new integration reflects a significant first for the API team; as we welcome Culture Greetings founder Dr. Dionne Mahaffey, we acknowledge that she is the first African American female founder to join the platform,” said Drew Schweinfurth, Manager of Developer Relations at Walgreens.

“The addition of Culture Greetings to the Walgreens network digitally and physically expands the greeting card aisle by integrating more diverse and socially reflective options”, Dr. Mahaffey added.

Culture Greetings offers more than 2000 greeting cards featuring imagery centered around and elevating the Black and Brown communities' voices. Card options span both mainstream and cultural holidays, milestone occasions, social justice, and photo-card templates allowing users to create fully customized personal greetings.  Culture Greetings will offer both the Walgreens’ premium and standard card stock.

Additional details of the new API integration include:

• Photo Prints API for card printing.
• Store Locator for accurate pickup details
• Two Card Stock options
• Same day pickup at any Walgreens or Duane Reade location in the U.S. and Puerto Rico
• Payment collected at store

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Mahaffey and the Culture Greetings team to the growing list Walgreens API Partners.   

Send a card via the Culture Greetings platform today!

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

MIME, a leading personalization engine for cosmetics and skincare, has integrated with our Digital Offers API. Within their iPhone App, Flawless™ by MIME, users can take a photo of any color that inspires them and the app will match the shade. Users can also take selfies and find their perfect foundation match. Once a product is found, users can purchase directly on Walgreens.com or pickup in-store within the same day* – all while earning Balance Rewards points.

“It has been a pleasure working with the Walgreens engineering team,” says MIME founder Chris Merkle. “The Walgreens team clearly understands their customer journey and they have created their API platform to support that path. For a complex integration like this with an enterprise brand, integrations can take months. Together we integrated and went live in just a few weeks. We look forward to growing our partnership with Walgreens and their amazing team.”

Currently the Walgreens integration is available inside of the Flawless™ by MIME iPhone app only; the Android version is in development and will go live soon. What’s next for future development? The MIME team hopes to reward their users by offering cash back on purchases made through their apps. 

*Product availability varies by store location.

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

We wanted to hop back onto our blog to introduce Thunder Bunny Labs a new integration of our Photo Prints API. They have launched their new Map Maker feature which helps you build an amazing photo map of the 50 US states on their website with your photos inside the frame of any state!

With the 50 States Photo Map from Thunder Bunny Labs you can create a one-of-a-kind conversation piece using your own photos from around the USA. Their innovative design allows you to fill the map over time, so whether you are a lifelong traveler or just beginning your adventure you will always remember where you are going and where you have been. Filling up your map is now easier than ever thanks to integration with the Walgreens Photo Prints API. Simply upload your photos into the virtual map, adjust the size and position if you wish, and have them printed directly to a Walgreens near you. The prints will fit perfectly into your map so you can spend less time worrying about cropping and print settings and more time planning your next vacation!

Hop on over to start building your Photo Map of the 50 US States today on the Thunder Bunny Labs Map Maker website.