Custom Buttons for Bethpage, New York

Which address should you use if the ZIP field looks wrong for your town? Use your full street address exactly as you would write it on an envelope. Bethpage has no ZIP code of its own on our file, and that is fine, because an order here is routed on the street address you type, not on a code we hold in a table. House or building number, street, unit or suite if you have one, town, state. That is the whole of it, and the order behaves the same as any other Nassau County order once it is placed.

No ZIP on file, and why it changes nothing

People notice the missing code and assume something is broken. Nothing is. A ZIP on file is a convenience for us, a way of grouping places. It is not what an order travels on. The address block you fill in is the authoritative thing, and it is the only thing a carrier reads. If you have a suite number, a booth receiving desk, a loading entrance or a mail room, put it on the second line. That detail matters far more than any code, especially for an office park or a shared building where several companies sit behind one street number.

The one thing worth double checking is the state. Type New York. An address typed without a state can land in a queue for manual review, which is an annoyance worth avoiding.

Five sizes, and what each one costs

There are five round pin back buttons 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. All five are full colour, printed from artwork you upload. There is a 1 inch at $1.49 and a 1.25 inch at $1.69 as well, both of them smaller than the sizes above.

Each size climbs its own ladder, and 100 is the first rung. It is the same at ten as it is at a thousand. The honest advice is to order your real headcount and then check one thing: whether a single size is sitting just under 100, 250 or 500. Order the number you actually want.

A worked order, start to finish

Take a common exhibitor quantity: 100 of the 2.25 inch button. At $1.59 each, the published 100 to 249 figure, that is $159.00 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $9.99. The order comes to $168.99 before tax.

Change the size and only the per button figure moves. A hundred of a size earns 20 percent, and the saving applies to all hundred. There is no third variable hiding in the total.

Where the shipping tiers sit

Shipping is flat and it is set by the total number of buttons on the order, not by weight and not by how many designs you split them across.

• up to 100 buttons $9.99
• up to 250 buttons $14.99
• up to 500 buttons $19.99
• up to 1000 buttons $24.99

The boundaries are worth a glance before you check out. An order of exactly 100 sits at the top of the first tier at $9.99. An order of 101 sits in the second tier at $14.99. That is five dollars for one extra button, so if you are hovering just above a boundary, either trim back to the line or go well past it and use the headroom. At 101 you have already paid for the second tier, and the same $14.99 carries you all the way to 250.

Distance, and the pickup option

In straight line terms this town sits 10.3 miles south west of us, which puts it comfortably inside the area we cover along with Old Bethpage 1.8 miles out, Plainedge at 2.0 miles, Levittown at 2.3 miles, Plainview at 2.4 miles and Hicksville at 2.5 miles. Free local pickup is available on any order, and taking it means no shipping tier applies at all. On the 100 button example above, that is the difference between $168.99 and $159.00 before tax.

Artwork for a badge someone will read across a table

A button is small and it is worn on a chest, which means it is read at an angle and from a few feet away. Upload artwork in full colour and build it around one idea. A company mark and a single line of text works. A mark, a tagline, a booth number, a QR code and a web address does not, because the 1.5 inch face is smaller in the hand than it looks on a screen.

Keep anything you need read away from the outer rim. The edge of a round button curves over the shell, so a design that runs text right to the boundary loses the ends of words. Centre the important part and leave the rim to a solid colour or a plain background.

If you are printing several designs for one show, use the same background colour across the set. It makes a scattered handful on a table read as one family rather than five unrelated things, and it means a visitor can spot your staff across an aisle without reading anything at all.

For the exhibitor with one booth and one staff member

You need enough to hand out and a few to wear. The 2.25 inch is the usual starting point because it holds a logo plus a short line of text without crowding. One hundred buttons puts you at the top of the first shipping tier, which is a tidy place to start.

For the company sending a team

Order one design for staff and a second for visitors, and keep both on the same order so the button count is combined into a single shipping tier. Two designs placed together pay one shipping charge set by the combined count, not two separate charges.

For the association running a registration desk

Registration tables move volume, so think in terms of the 250 and 500 boundaries. If your estimate lands just under one of them, taking the order up to the boundary itself leaves the shipping figure exactly where it was.

For anyone ordering the same thing again

A second order is priced on its own count, so sixty now and sixty in the spring is two orders of sixty rather than one of a hundred and twenty. The ladder itself is fixed between orders, so a later run of the same count pays the same rate the first one did.

Questions we get

Bethpage does not show a ZIP code on your site, so what do I enter when I order? Your full street address, including the state. The missing code is on our reference list, not on your order, and it has no effect on where the buttons go.

What does 100 of the 2.25 inch button come to for a Bethpage order? $159.00 in buttons at $1.59 each, the published 100 to 249 figure, plus $9.99 flat shipping, for $168.99 before tax.

My Bethpage order goes a little past 100 buttons. Does the shipping change? Yes. Anything over 100 falls into the second tier at $14.99. Since you have paid for that tier already, you can take the order up to 250 without the shipping figure moving again.

Does a larger Bethpage order get a lower price per button? Yes, and the saving applies to the whole run of that size. The discount is counted inside one size, so a hundred of the 1.5 inch earns it and fifty of two different sizes does not. The figure listed is what 1 to 99 of that size costs each. Two things respond to a bigger count: what each button of that size costs, and the single postage line.

Which size suits a Bethpage exhibitor handing buttons out at a table? The 2.25 inch handles a logo with a line of text. Go to the 3 inch if the design carries a booth number or a second line, and to the 1.5 inch if it is a single mark with no text at all.