Custom Pin-Back Buttons for East Massapequa, New York

Amityville sits 0.9 miles off, Massapequa Park 1.1 miles, and Massapequa, North Amityville and Copiague each about two miles out, so five places we also cover ring you on nearly every side. That matters for a practical reason. When an organiser pulls together a crew for an event, the crew rarely comes from one set of streets. It comes from a couple of miles in each direction, which means the badge pinned to a volunteer's jacket has to be legible to someone who has never met them and has no idea which side of a line they drove in from. A round button with a name, a role and a logo on it does that job without asking anyone to remember anything.

Ordering when the post office has no ZIP for you

Here is the wrinkle worth knowing before you start a cart. East Massapequa has no ZIP code of its own on file with us. There is nothing wrong with that and nothing you need to fix. Orders route on the street address, so the house or building number, the street name, the unit or suite if there is one, and Nassau County, New York are what carry the package. Type the address the way your mail already arrives and it will land.

The one thing we would ask is that you be complete rather than clever. If the delivery point is a firehouse, a hall, a park office or a school building, give the full street address rather than the building's common name on its own. A courier reads numbers and street names. It does not know what the annex behind the parking lot is called.

Five sizes, and what a hundred of one does

We make round pin-back buttons in five sizes and that is the whole catalogue.

• The 1 inch, $1.49 each
• The 1.25 inch, $1.69 each
• The 1.5 inch, $1.89 each
• The 2.25 inch, $1.99 each
• The 3 inch, $2.49 each

Those arepublished rate for each band. A button costs the same for the first ninety-nine of a size. Order the count you actually need, with one exception worth checking: if you are a handful short of 100, 250 or 500 of a single size, the bigger order can come to less than the smaller one. Every button is full colour and printed from artwork you upload, so what you send is what comes back.

What a 150 badge run actually costs

Take a common shape of order: 150 of the 2.25 inch button, which is the size most people land on for staff and volunteer badges because a name and a role both fit on it without shrinking the type.

At $1.59 each, the band rate once 100 of one size are on the order, 150 buttons is $238.50. Flat shipping for an order that size is $14.99. The order comes to $253.49 before tax.

The per button rate is a per size question and the shipping tier is a whole order question.

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

Notice where 150 falls. It has crossed the 100 button line, so it pays the $14.99 tier rather than the $9.99 one, and it will keep paying $14.99 all the way up to 250. If your headcount is genuinely near a boundary, that is the one place where the exact number on your order changes what you pay in a way that is worth a second look. Above the boundary you have already paid for the step, so the buttons between there and the next step ride at the same shipping cost.

How far the shop is from you

Measured in a straight line on the map, the shop is 14.2 miles from East Massapequa, which sits to the south of it. That is a ruler measurement, not a route and not a time. Roads on Long Island do what roads do. We mention it only because people ask where their order comes from, and because the neighbouring places listed at the top of this page are all covered from the same place, which is why an order pulling volunteers from several of them is still just one order.

Making a badge set that works on the floor

A few things are worth settling before you upload artwork, and they have nothing to do with printing.

Decide what the badge is for. If its job is to let an attendee identify someone who can help, then role beats name and the role wants to be the biggest thing on the button. If its job is to let staff recognise each other, name beats role. Trying to do both at equal weight gives you two pieces of small text instead of one piece of large text.

Use size as a code rather than colour alone. With five sizes on the table, some organisers put core staff on the 3 inch, general volunteers on the 2.25 inch and vendors or guests on the 1.5 inch. It reads from further away than a colour difference does, and it survives being seen from an angle.

Leave the edge alone. A button wraps around a curve, so artwork that crowds the outer rim will have its outermost ring pulled around the side. Keep names, logos and any text you actually need read inside the flat face and let the background run to the edge.

Who tends to order these

If you are the volunteer coordinator for a one day event, you are probably ordering one button per person plus a handful of spares, because someone always turns up unlisted and someone always loses theirs in a coat pocket. Spares are counted in with the rest of that size, so they are charged at whatever band the combined count reaches, and the only question left is whether they push you over a shipping step.

If you run a recurring event, consider a design without a date on it. A badge that says only the organisation and the role can come back out of the box for the next one, and you order a fresh set when the roster changes rather than when the calendar does.

If you are handling a fundraiser and the badges are doing double duty as a giveaway, the 1.5 inch at $1.89 is the size people actually pin to a bag. Budget it as its own line rather than folding it into the staff count, because the two numbers behave differently.

If you are the person who inherited this task three days ago with no design file, keep it simple. A logo on a plain background with one line of text under it is a legitimate badge. Complexity is not what makes it work.

Questions people in East Massapequa ask

Our checkout wants a ZIP and East Massapequa does not seem to have one. What should we enter? Enter the ZIP that your mail already uses for your street address, and make sure the street address itself is complete. The address is what the order routes on, so that is the field to get exactly right.

Our event is in East Massapequa but the volunteers come from Amityville and Massapequa Park. Do we need separate orders? No. Put the whole run on one order and ship it to a single address, then hand the badges out on site. Splitting it into separate orders only means paying a shipping tier more than once.

Does a larger East Massapequa order bring the price per button down? Yes. It drops at three counts, and the drop applies to every button of that size on the order. The two are a band apart: 40 at the listed rate, 400 at 25 percent under the listed rate. A size's rate is fixed inside its band and steps at the next one.

We need 150 staff badges for an East Massapequa event. What is the total? At the 2.25 inch size that is $238.50 in buttons plus $14.99 flat shipping, so $253.49 before tax.

Can an East Massapequa order mix all five sizes on one shipment? Yes. Each size keeps its own band, set by its own count, and the shipping tier is worked out from the total number of buttons on the order, not from each size separately.