Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Franklin Square, New York

An address that routes without a postal code

An order headed for Franklin Square is identified by the street address written on it, because there is no ZIP code on file for the place. That sounds like a clerical footnote, and for most orders it is, but it does change which fields carry the weight. The building number, the street, the state: those three do the routing work by themselves. People ordering conference and trade show handouts usually meet this quirk first, because a booth order tends to get typed in a hurry between two other deadlines, and the address block is the one part worth slowing down for.

Write the delivery address the way you would write it on an envelope you were handing to someone in person. Building or house number first, then the street, then the state. If the checkout asks for a postal field and you do not have one to give, use the code that the delivery point itself goes by, whatever appears on mail that already reaches you there. Nothing about the order needs a special note or a flag. The point is only that the street line is doing more work than usual, so a transposed number or a missing suite has more consequence here than it would somewhere with a postal code quietly correcting for it. Read it back once before you place the order.

The 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. Buy 100 of a size and all 100 are 20 percent cheaper each. Everything up to 999 of a size is priced automatically, and a thousand of one size is where a person takes over. Whatever you are working out, it is the same multiplication every time: number of buttons, times the price for that size. The 1 inch, $1.49, and the 1.25 inch, $1.69, complete the range at the small end.

The 1.5 inch is the badge sized one, small enough to sit on a lapel without pulling the fabric. The 2.25 inch is the common middle, and it is where most booth giveaways land because it holds a logo and a line of text at a size a person can read while walking. The 3 inch gives you room for artwork that has detail in it, a full illustration or a dense design that would close up at a smaller diameter.

Shipping is a flat tier based on the total number of buttons on the order, not on the sizes in it. 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.

A worked example for a booth run

Say you need 150 of the 2.25 inch button for a two day exhibit. At $1.59 each, the rate for 100 to 249 of a single size, the buttons come to $238.50. That quantity sits inside the tier that runs up to 250 buttons, so shipping is $14.99. The order totals $253.49 before tax. Nothing else enters the arithmetic.

Because the shipping tiers step at fixed counts, the one number worth a second look is the boundary at 100. An order of exactly 100 buttons ships at $9.99. An order of 101 ships at $14.99. If your count has landed just over the line and the extra few are spares rather than committed handouts, trimming back to 100 is worth a moment's thought. If you genuinely need 110, take the tier and move on, because the tier is the same whether you order 101 or 250, which is also why topping up toward the middle of a tier costs nothing extra in shipping.

Where this sits relative to the shop

Franklin Square is 19.3 miles south west of the shop, measured as a straight line rather than as a route. It is in Nassau County, and several places we also cover sit close by: Garden City South at 1.2 miles, West Hempstead at 1.4 miles, Malverne at 1.5 miles, Elmont at 1.7 miles, and Lakeview at 2.1 miles. If your office, your storage unit and your show venue are scattered across those, the ordering process does not change from one to the next. The distances are given here because people ask, not because anything about the order depends on them.

Artwork, and what actually gets printed

Buttons are printed in full colour from artwork you upload. The printed area is round, so the safest habit is to design with the centre in mind and keep anything you cannot afford to lose, a logo mark, a booth number, a short line of copy, away from the outer edge where the artwork wraps around the curve of the button. Solid backgrounds and high contrast type hold up better at 1.5 inch than fine hairlines and small caps do. If you are unsure whether a design survives the shrink, print it at actual size on paper and look at it from arm's length, which is roughly how far away an attendee will be.

Working out a run before you commit

Since the per button price is fixed, planning is mostly a question of how many people you expect to hand one to and how many you want left over. Exhibitors tend to overshoot or undershoot badly in both directions, so it helps to separate the two numbers: the count you intend to give away, and the buffer you want on the table at the end. Add them, check which shipping tier the total falls in, and multiply. If the total sits a few buttons above a tier line, you now know exactly what that costs you, and you can decide whether the buffer is worth it.

Four ways this comes up

The solo exhibitor with one table. You have one design, one size, and a count you can almost guess: the attendee number the organiser gave you, scaled down to the fraction who stop. One size keeps the arithmetic to a single line, and the 2.25 inch is the usual starting point.

The marketing coordinator running several booths. Splitting one size across several designs costs nothing, because the designs are added together for the discount. The only thing consolidating changes is which shipping tier a single order lands in.

The association or membership group staffing a table. You are handing out to members and to people you would like to become members, and you may want two designs, one for each. Both sizes and both designs still price out at their own rate, chosen by how many of it you order.

The startup sharing a stand. Budget is tight and the count is small. A run well under 100 buttons stays in the lowest shipping tier and pays the listed rate, where a run ten times the size would be 25 percent under it.

Questions people ask

Franklin Square has no ZIP code on file. What do I put in the address fields? Put the full street address, including building number and any suite, and use the postal code that mail already reaching that address carries. The street line is what identifies the delivery point.

Can I put more than one size on a single order for Franklin Square, and how is shipping counted? Yes. Each size keeps its own per button price, and the shipping tier is worked out from the total number of buttons across the whole order.

Does the price per button drop if my Franklin Square order is a large one? No. Two sizes on one order climb two separate ladders. Ninety-nine of a size costs more in total than a hundred of it, which is worth a second look at a boundary.

What does 150 of the 2.25 inch button come to for a Franklin Square exhibitor? $238.50 for the buttons, plus $14.99 shipping for that tier, so $253.49 before tax.

We have a second location near Franklin Square. Is ordering any different there? No. Garden City South, West Hempstead, Malverne, Elmont and Lakeview are all covered the same way, and all of them are within roughly two miles.