Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Bay Shore, New York

What does a run of 400 buttons actually come to once shipping is on it? For the 1.5 inch size the price is $1.42 a button, the 250 to 499 rate, 25 percent off, so 400 of them is $568.00 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order that size is $19.99, which puts the order at $587.99 before tax. That is the whole sum, with nothing else bolted on. It is also the first number most people want when they are costing out a giveaway for a booth, and if you are putting that booth together from Bay Shore, it is the figure to budget against.

Five sizes, and a price that sits still

We make round pin-back buttons in five sizes and nothing else. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. The rate you pay depends on how many of that one size are on the order. The hundredth button costs exactly what the first one cost, and the thousandth costs the same again. Padding pays only at a boundary and only within one size, where 99 of a size costs more in total than 100 of it. Order the number you actually need and the arithmetic stays simple. The 1 inch at $1.49 carries a single initial or one simple mark, and the 1.25 inch at $1.69 gives a short word a little more room.

Choosing between the sizes is really a question of how much has to fit inside the circle. The 1.5 inch holds a mark and a word or two. The 2.25 inch gives you a logo plus a short line of type underneath it without either fighting the other. The 3 inch is the one to pick when the handout has to do work on its own: a booth number, a session title, a scannable code, a line telling someone what to do next. All five are printed in full colour from artwork you upload.

Where the shipping lines fall

Shipping is a flat charge set by the total number of buttons on the order, not by which sizes you mixed into it. Up to 100 buttons is $9.99. Up to 250 is $14.99. Up to 500 is $19.99. Up to 1000 is $24.99.

The two things a bigger count changes are the band each size is priced in and the one shipping charge on the order. That makes the boundaries worth a look before you check out. An order of 250 ships at $14.99, while an order of 260 ships at $19.99. If those extra ten are spares rather than something you counted out against a real list, trimming back to the line is the cheaper order by five dollars. The same thing happens higher up. Stay at 500 and you pay $19.99. Go to 501 and the order sits in the $24.99 tier.

One name, several places on the map

The town sits inside the Township of Islip, in Suffolk County, under ZIP code 11706. Immediately west of it is West Bay Shore. Immediately north of it is North Bay Shore. Brightwaters is 1.3 miles off, Islip is 1.7 miles, and Baywood is 3.1 miles. Several of those names share a root, and they are all close enough together that an outsider will not untangle them from context.

That matters more on a button than you would expect. Plenty of exhibitor handouts carry a place name somewhere in the design, usually under the logo. If it is abbreviated, or cut down to a single word to make it fit, a stranger holding it at a conference two states away has no way to tell which of the neighbouring hamlets you actually meant. Spell the name out in full on the artwork. On a 1.5 inch button that generally means giving the place name its own line rather than trying to run it along the bottom edge, and on the 2.25 inch it fits comfortably beside a booth number.

Thirteen miles out, to the south east

The straight line distance from the shop to Bay Shore is 13.3 miles, running south east. The neighbouring places listed above all sit within about three miles of the town centre, which is a useful thing to know when the people working your booth are scattered across several of them.

The practical consequence is about the order, not the geography. One order covers everyone on the team and pays one flat shipping charge. Sixty of one design and sixty of another at the same size is one hundred and twenty of that size, and both lines are discounted. Gather the count first, place it once.

Artwork that still reads inside a small circle

A button is a small round object and the design has to hold together once it is reduced to that size. Two or three colours with real contrast between them beat a subtle gradient every time at this scale. Type wants to be heavier than it would be on a printed card. Thin serifs and hairline strokes close up.

Leave breathing room at the edge. The printed sheet wraps around the curve of the shell, so anything sitting tight against the border rolls out of sight. Keep logos, text and any code you want scanned well inside the safe area. If you are using a code on the 3 inch size, test it from the proof before you commit to the full run.

Who tends to order these

If you exhibit several times a year and your booth graphics are already locked down, the button is the piece that changes. Same shell, new artwork each time, same price per button whichever size you settle on.

If you are running a single session or workshop rather than a full booth, the 2.25 inch tends to be the sensible middle. It reads from across a table, it carries a session name, and 100 of them lands in the $9.99 shipping tier.

If you are an association or trade group handing out at a member event, the count is usually known in advance from the registration list. Order against that number rather than rounding up, since rounding up does not buy a better rate.

If you are a small vendor sharing a table with other exhibitors, the 1.5 inch works as the thing people take without being asked. Keep the design to one mark and one word so it is legible in a bowl.

Questions people ask

Our exhibit team is spread across Bay Shore and the villages next to it. Can we put it all on one order?

Yes, and you should. Shipping is charged once per order by total button count, so one order of 400 pays $19.99 while four orders of 100 pay $9.99 each, which is $39.96. From 500 to 999 of a size the rate is 30 percent under the listed one.

We need 400 of the 1.5 inch for a Bay Shore booth. What is the total?

$568.00 for the buttons at $1.42 each, the 250 to 499 rate, 25 percent off, plus $19.99 flat shipping because 400 falls in the up to 500 tier. That is $587.99 before tax.

Does ordering more buttons lower the price per button for a Bay Shore customer?

No. 1,000 of a single size is quoted by a person rather than priced automatically. The rate is counted inside a single size and the shipping tier is counted across all of them.

We want the full town name on the handout so nobody confuses us with the hamlets that share it. Will Bay Shore fit on a 1.5 inch button?

It fits, but give it its own line under your logo rather than curving it around the edge. If you also need a booth number or a session title on the same face, step up to the 2.25 inch at $1.99 each.

We are planning 260 buttons for a Bay Shore event. Is there a reason to look at that number again?

There is. 250 ships at $14.99 and 260 ships at $19.99, so the last ten buttons cost $18.90 in buttons plus a five dollar jump in shipping. If they are genuine spares, keep them. If the count was rounded, 250 is the tidier order.