Custom Pin-Back Buttons for East Hills, New York

A club organiser sitting with a membership list and a logo file usually wants one straightforward thing: the same pin on every member, produced in one run, without anyone assembling badges by hand at a kitchen table. That is the order this page is written for. Society badges, committee markers, officer pins, the badge that distinguishes a first year member from a life member, all printed in full colour from one piece of uploaded artwork onto round pin-back buttons.

Five sizes, one price on each

There are five buttons here and nothing else. A 1.5 inch round is $1.89 each. A 2.25 inch round is $1.99 each. A 3 inch round is $2.49 each. Those are per button figures and they hold in the 1 to 99 band. The table is published, so your own total and ours come from the same two numbers. That also means a committee loses nothing by waiting to see whether a few more members sign up, because more of one size can only move the rate down, never up. A 1 inch button is $1.49 and a 1.25 inch is $1.69, both suited to a single word or a mark rather than a sentence.

Size usually follows the job rather than the budget. The 1.5 inch is the ordinary membership pin, small enough to sit on a lapel next to a name badge without competing with it. The 2.25 inch is the general purpose choice and the one that carries a crest with a little text around it most comfortably. The 3 inch is for things meant to be read across a room, such as officer badges at a meeting or markers on a welcome table.

What a run of 501 comes to

Take a concrete case. The group settles on the 1.5 inch button and orders 501 of them. At $1.32 each, the 500 to 999 rate, 30 percent off, that is $661.32 in buttons. Shipping is a flat charge set by the total number of buttons on the order, and 501 falls into the band that runs up to 1000, which is $24.99. The order totals $686.31 before tax.

Now look again at that 501, because the shipping bands are worth knowing before you commit a number. 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. Five hundred buttons sit exactly at the top of the $19.99 band. Five hundred and one crosses into the next one. Ordering 500 rather than 501 saves $5.00 in postage, and the buttons are $1.32 each either way, because 500 and 501 share the 500 to 999 band. If the roll genuinely has 501 names on it, pay the $24.99 and be done. If the 501st was a spare somebody added for safety, it is worth a second look.

Two neighbours at an identical distance

Old Westbury and Roslyn Heights both sit 1.4 miles from East Hills, the same figure to the decimal, one on either side. Albertson is 2.0 miles out, Glenwood Landing 2.2 miles, and Searingtown 2.5 miles. All of them are Nassau County addresses and all of them are covered here.

That matters for a club whose membership does not respect a municipal boundary, which is most of them. A society drawing its members from three adjoining places does not need three orders. One artwork file, one count, one shipping charge. The reverse is also worth saying plainly: every separate shipment is charged its own flat band, so splitting one order of 400 buttons into two shipments of 200 means paying two shipping charges instead of one. Consolidating to a single address and letting the officers distribute from there is almost always the cheaper arrangement, and it keeps the count clear of any band boundary you were trying to stay under.

Getting a crest to read at button size

Club artwork tends to be crest shaped, which is a good fit for a round button, and it tends to carry a motto, a founding year and sometimes a chapter name around the outside. All of that is printable in full colour. The judgement to make is how much of it stays legible once reduced to a lapel pin. Thin outline strokes and text below roughly eight point tend to close up at 1.5 inch, which is why crests with a lot of lettering usually go to 2.25 inch or 3 inch while a plain emblem or monogram is comfortable at the 1 inch.

A practical route for a society that wants both: use the emblem alone on the 1.5 inch membership pin, and put the full crest with its lettering on a 3 inch badge for officers and for the sign in table. Two designs, one order, each size at its own count and so its own rate.

Thirteen miles, measured in a straight line

East Hills lies 13.3 miles south west of the shop. That is a straight line figure, not a road figure, and it is here mainly to place the town relative to the other Nassau County addresses listed above rather than to describe any journey.

Four people who send us this kind of order

The membership secretary. You hold the definitive list and you know it moves. Order to the number you actually have rather than a padded estimate, then watch the shipping bands, because the padding is what pushes a count across a boundary.

The committee chair marking an anniversary year. You want a badge every member keeps. This is usually where a second size earns its place, a small pin for the membership and a larger one for the officers and the head table.

The volunteer coordinator. You need people identifiable at a glance across a crowded room, which is an argument for the 3 inch button and for high contrast in the artwork rather than fine detail.

The treasurer working to a fixed figure. You want a total you can take to a meeting. Multiply the count by the per button price, add the one shipping band the count falls into, and that is the number. Nothing further gets layered on.

Questions we get asked

Our members live in East Hills, Old Westbury and Roslyn Heights. Can that be one order? Yes, and it usually should be. One artwork file and one total count, shipped to a single address for the officers to distribute. Three separate shipments would each be charged their own flat shipping band.

Our chapter roll has 501 names. Is there a reason to order 500 instead of 501 for East Hills? Only the postage. The 500th button is the last one inside the $19.99 shipping band and the 501st moves the order into the $24.99 band, a difference of $5.00. The per button price is unaffected. If all 501 people need a pin, order 501.

Does a larger East Hills order bring the price per button down? It does, in three steps. Yes for one size at a time. A hundred of a size earns 20 percent; a hundred buttons spread across several sizes earns nothing. Nothing here is negotiated: the band your count lands in sets the rate. Order honestly and check the boundaries once. Those two steps are the whole of the decision.

There is no ZIP code showing for East Hills. What do we enter? We hold no ZIP code on file for the town, so enter the street address exactly as it appears on your own mail. The address as you type it is what the order is shipped against.

Can an East Hills society order more than one size on a single order? Yes. Each size is charged at its own ladder, climbed on its own count, and the shipping band is worked out from the combined number of buttons across every size on the order, not from each size separately. A run of 300 small pins and 60 large ones counts as 360 buttons for shipping purposes.