Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Fort Salonga, New York

East Northport, Northport and Kings Park all sit within three miles of Fort Salonga, with Centerport 4.3 miles out and Commack 4.8 miles out, so the whole ring of neighbours closes inside five miles. That is an unusually tight cluster for five separate named places. It shapes how orders from this corner of Suffolk County tend to get planned, because a run of buttons ordered here rarely stays inside one ZIP code. It travels with whoever is carrying it.

This page covers custom pin-back buttons for that area: five round sizes, full colour, printed from artwork you upload.

A RING OF NEIGHBOURS, NONE OF THEM FAR

The five nearest places we also cover sit at 2.4, 2.7, 2.7, 4.3 and 4.8 miles. East Northport and Northport are the closest two, Kings Park is level with Northport, and Centerport and Commack fill in the outer edge. Practically, that means an order placed from the 11768 ZIP is often not a one location order. A shop owner with a counter here and a table at a market a couple of miles away is buying one batch of buttons for both.

That is worth knowing before you pick a quantity, because quantity is the one decision on this site that changes what you pay in a way that is not simply the count multiplied by the price. More on that below.

FIVE SIZES, AND WHERE EACH ONE STEPS DOWN

There are five buttons and nothing else:

• 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 per button rate. They are the same at ten buttons and the same at a thousand. Order what the list needs, then look at the band boundaries once. They are the only place where ordering more costs less. If you have bought promotional items before and you are used to hunting for the break point, there is not one here. Ten 2.25 inch buttons cost $1.99 each and five hundred of them cost $1.39 each.

The practical effect is that you can order the number you actually want rather than padding an order to reach a threshold. A growing count moves the rate band for that size first and the shipping tier second.

WHERE QUANTITY ACTUALLY COSTS YOU

Shipping is flat and banded by the total number of buttons on the order:

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

Here is a worked example. Say you want 101 of the 3 inch button. At $1.99 each, the published 100 to 249 figure, that is $200.99 in buttons. One hundred and one buttons crosses out of the first band, so shipping is $14.99, and the order comes to $215.98 before tax.

Now drop one button. At 100 the order sits in the $9.99 band, and you save $5.00 on postage. The buttons themselves still cost $2.49 each either way, so nothing about the per button price has changed. You have simply stepped back under a postage line. If your number is sitting one or two over a band edge and the exact count is not fixed, it is worth a second look. If you genuinely need 101, order 101. The $5.00 is not worth being short a button at the counter.

ARTWORK AT EACH OF THE FIVE SIZES

All five sizes print in full colour from the file you upload, and the difference between them is really a difference in how much detail survives being read at arm's length. The 1.5 inch is a mark, a monogram, a single word, a simple logo. The 2.25 inch is the general purpose one: a logo with a line of text under it usually sits comfortably. The 3 inch gives you room for a logo, a tagline and something else, or for artwork with fine internal detail that would close up at the smaller sizes.

Remember that a round button wraps at the edge, so a little of the outer ring of your artwork curves around the side rather than sitting flat on the face. Keep anything you need read, a phone number, a shop name, a hashtag, inside the middle of the circle rather than hard against the rim.

COLLECTION INSTEAD OF POSTAGE

Fort Salonga sits 5.7 miles east of the shop in a straight line. That is close enough that free local pickup is worth weighing against the shipping band, because collecting the order means the flat postage charge does not apply at all. On the 101 button example above that is the whole $14.99. Whether that is worth the trip is your call, but on larger orders it is the single biggest lever on the total, larger than anything the quantity itself does.

PLANNING A RUN FOR A SHOP COUNTER

Loyalty pins and promotional buttons are the pattern this page is written around, because it is the kind of order small retailers put together. A few notes that come up repeatedly with that sort of run.

Decide whether the button is a giveaway or a reward before you set the count. A giveaway that sits in a bowl by the register empties at a rate you cannot predict, so people tend to order in a round number and reorder. A reward handed over at a threshold is countable, and you can work backwards from how many of those you expect to hand out.

If the design carries a date, a season or a specific offer, it stops being useful when that offer does. If it carries only your name and mark, it does not. Two designs in one order is fine, and shipping is banded on the total button count across the whole order, not per design.

FOUR PEOPLE THIS PAGE IS FOR

The independent retailer. You want your own mark on a 2.25 inch button to hand to anyone who buys something, and you want the cost per unit to be a single number you can put in a spreadsheet without conditions attached to it. It is a single number. Multiply and you are done.

The stallholder who also has a fixed counter. You are covering two spots a couple of miles apart. One order, one artwork file, one postage charge, and one box to divide between the two spots.

The person running a short promotion. You want the 3 inch so the offer is legible across a counter, and you want to know exactly where the postage line falls before you commit to a number. It falls at 100, 250, 500 and 1000 buttons.

The owner ordering for the second time. You already know the design works and you are only deciding the count. A repeat order of the same size and the same count lands in the same band, because the bands are published and fixed.

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK

Does a larger Fort Salonga order get a lower price per button? It does. 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. A larger count of one size cannot cost more per button than a smaller one. 100, 250 and 500 of a single size are the three numbers worth knowing.

I need 101 of the 3 inch button for a shop in Fort Salonga. Is there a reason to order 100 instead? Only postage. At 101 buttons the order falls in the $14.99 shipping band; at 100 it sits in the $9.99 band, a $5.00 difference. The buttons cost $2.49 each in both cases.

If a Fort Salonga order has all five sizes in it, how is the shipping band worked out? On the total number of buttons across the whole order, not per size and not per design. Forty of one size and eighty of another is 120 buttons, which puts the order in the $14.99 band.

Would splitting a Fort Salonga order into two smaller orders cost less overall? Usually no. Each order carries its own flat postage charge, so two orders means two charges. Splitting a run across separate orders splits the count that earns the discount, which is the new reason to keep it together.

Can I collect a Fort Salonga order rather than pay the shipping band? Yes. Local pickup is free, and an order collected in person does not carry the flat postage charge at all.