Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Commack, New York

Ordering buttons from Commack starts with one honest choice: collect the order yourself, or have it shipped to you. The three steps are 100, 250 and 500, counted per size. The five sizes are the same, the price per button is the same, and the artwork you upload is handled the same. Only the last leg of the order differs, and that is the one part of it carrying a separate charge, so it is worth settling before you get into quantities at all. Some people prefer the drive. Others would rather have the box turn up at the door and spend no further thought on it. Neither is the clever answer and neither is unusual on our end.

Neighbours inside four miles

One fact shapes a lot of what we see from this corner of Suffolk County: the five places nearest to Commack that we also cover all sit within 4.0 miles of it. Smithtown Pines is 2.3 miles away, Elwood is 2.9, East Northport is 3.4, Dix Hills is 3.7 and Kings Park is 4.0. For a party favour order that matters more than it sounds. A birthday or an anniversary rarely draws its guest list from a single ZIP code, and 11725 is no exception. The people who will end up carrying these buttons home are usually spread across several of those names, which means one person can sensibly order for the entire group and hand them out on the night rather than posting them onward. It also means a co host in the next town over is never far from whoever is holding the box.

Six point four miles, in a straight line

Commack sits 6.4 miles south east of us in a straight line. That figure is a straight line measurement and nothing else. It is not a road distance and it is not a number of minutes, because roads bend and traffic is not ours to predict. We publish it only to give you a sense of scale. This is not a cross island order, so for plenty of people the collection option is genuinely practical: if you would be heading in this direction anyway, collecting takes the shipping charge off the total outright. If you would not be, the bands below are flat and easy to plan around.

The breaks at 100, 250 and 500

A hundred of one size is the first point where the per button figure drops. The 1.5 inch button is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. Three counts are worth a second look before you commit: 100, 250 and 500 of a single size. Everywhere else, order what you need. There is not one to find. The rate band and the shipping tier both step, and they are counted from different totals.

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

A worked example at 501 buttons

Say a planner needs 501 of the 2.25 inch button. At $1.39 each, 30 percent off because the count clears 500, that is $696.39 in buttons. An order of that size falls into the $24.99 shipping band, so the order comes to $721.38 before tax. Now look hard at that 501. Sizes are priced separately, so it is a hundred of one size that earns the break. That is the entire logic of the bands. Crossing a boundary by a single button is the only way a larger count ever costs you anything beyond the buttons, and it is simple to avoid once you know where the boundaries sit. If the guest count truly needs 501, order 501 and pay the higher band. If that last one was a rounding habit, round the other way instead.

Which size does which job

The 1.5 inch is the lapel size. It reads at arm's length and suits artwork that is already simple: a name, a number, a single face, one clean mark. The 2.25 inch is the one most party orders settle on, because it holds a photograph and a line of text together without either one crowding the other. The 3 inch is the statement piece. On a favour table it usually ends up reserved for the guest of honour, the parents, or whoever is meant to have something different from the rest of the room. All five are round and full colour, printed from the file you upload, so one design can be ordered across more than one size if that is the effect you are after.

Artwork that works on a favour table

A party favour is a specific job. The button is not selling anything and it is not being worn at a rally. It is a small thing a guest takes off a table on the way out and keeps. That changes what works on it. Dates read well. One strong photograph reads better than a collage. Names set in a large plain typeface beat a decorative script that shrinks into illegibility at 1.5 inches. Full colour means a background can carry the theme of the evening at no extra cost, since colour coverage has no bearing on the price per button. If you are working from a photograph, start from the largest copy you have rather than one pulled out of a message thread.

Who these orders usually come from

The planner with more than one date on the calendar. You are not placing a single order, you are placing a run of them across different clients and different themes, and what you want is a cost you can quote from memory. The listed rate holds from one button up to ninety-nine of that size.

The family organising a milestone anniversary. There is one photograph everyone agrees on, a year, and a guest list that has been argued over twice. The 2.25 inch across the room with a few of the 3 inch for the couple and their parents covers it without any further decisions.

The person collecting for a group. You are not the host, you are the one who volunteered. The nearby towns on the list above are close enough that you can take delivery once, split the box yourself, and hand the rest over at the party.

The host watching a boundary. Your count is close to 250 or close to 500 and you want to know whether it matters. It only matters for the shipping band, never for the price per button, and the bands are printed above so you can check before you commit.

Questions people ask before ordering

If I collect the order myself instead of having it shipped to Commack, do I still pay the flat shipping charge? No. The shipping bands apply only to orders we send out. Collecting takes that line off the total entirely, and the price per button is unchanged either way, so a collected order and a shipped order differ by the shipping figure and by nothing else.

Our guest list is spread across Commack and the towns next to it. Can one person order for everybody? Yes, and it is usually simpler. 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. You just split the box yourself and pass the rest on.

We need 501 buttons for a party in Commack. Is there any reason to order 500 instead? One reason: $5.00. At 501 the order sits in the $24.99 band, and at 500 it sits in the $19.99 band. The buttons are $1.99 each in both cases. If you genuinely need all 501, order all 501. If the extra one was a rounding habit, drop it.

Can a single Commack order mix all five sizes? Yes. Each size is billed at its own count and so its own rate of $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 or $2.49 per button, and the shipping band is worked out from the total number of buttons on the order rather than from any one size. Splitting the 2.25 inch for guests and the 3 inch for the people being celebrated is a common way to do it. Under those are the 1 inch at $1.49 and the 1.25 inch at $1.69, both pin-backed and full colour like the rest.

Does a large Commack order get a lower price per button? No. Set the count from the list, then ask one question: is any single size a few buttons short of a break? Quantity affects one thing only, which shipping band the order falls into, and those bands are listed above.