Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Freeport, New York

What does it actually cost to hand a button to every walker at a Freeport fundraiser?

Take the usual version of that order: 100 buttons at the 3 inch size. Those are $1.99 each, 20 percent below the listed rate, which is $199.00 in buttons. Flat shipping on an order of that size is $9.99, so the order comes to $208.99 before tax. That is the entire calculation. There is no setup charge behind it and no artwork fee waiting at checkout.

Five sizes, and what each one costs per button

We make round pin-back buttons in 1 inch, 1.25 inch, 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and 3 inch, 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. The 1 inch is the smallest at $1.49 each, and the 1.25 inch sits just above it at $1.69.

The three discounts are 20, 25 and 30 percent, each earned by one size's own count. The per button price on a small order is the per button price on a large one. The ladder is published rather than negotiated, so there is nothing to ask for: your count applies it. If you want to know what a pile of the 2.25 inch size costs, you multiply $1.99 by however many you want and you have it.

That matters when you are budgeting a giveaway whose headcount keeps moving. One ladder is counted inside a size and the other across the whole order, which is why they do not step together.

The one number that moves, and where it moves

Shipping is a flat tier set 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

The tier is decided by button count, not by weight, not by how many designs you split the order across, and not by how far the box has to travel.

Because of that, the boundaries are worth looking at before you commit. An order of exactly 100 buttons sits at the top of the $9.99 tier. An order of 101 sits at the bottom of the $14.99 tier and pays the same shipping as an order of 250. So if your headcount estimate is hovering around a hundred, there are two sensible answers and one wasteful one. Trim to 100 and stay in the first tier, or accept the second tier and use the whole of it, since 101 and 250 are charged identically. Ordering just past 100 and stopping there means paying a tier you have barely entered.

Straight line distance, and what it does not affect

Freeport is 18.3 miles south west of us, measured as a straight line on a map rather than as a route. The practical effect of that figure on your order is none at all. Shipping is a flat tier decided by button count, so a Nassau County address and an address at the far end of New York pay the same $9.99 on a hundred buttons. The distance is here because people want to know it, not because it changes a number on the invoice.

Five neighbours in the immediate ring

The thing that shapes most orders coming from this part of Nassau County is how tightly packed the surrounding places are. Roosevelt is 1.4 miles away. Merrick is 1.7 miles. Baldwin Harbor is 1.8 miles. Hempstead is 2.2 miles. North Merrick is 2.3 miles. Every one of those sits inside a two and a half mile radius.

For a charity walk drawing participants and volunteers from all five, that changes how you think about the order rather than the route. A committee spread across six places is still one committee placing one order. Splitting the buttons so each volunteer receives their own batch means a separate shipping tier for each batch, and each of those smaller orders sits low inside its tier. One order that stays within a tier pays that tier once.

Getting a giveaway design onto a circle

Buttons print in full colour from artwork you upload, so whatever you have already had drawn for the walk can go straight onto them. A few things about the circular shape are worth knowing while you are laying it out.

The printed sheet wraps around the curved edge of the button and tucks underneath, so anything close to the rim disappears from the front view. Keep text and logo edges away from the outer boundary and let background colour run to the very edge instead.

Size follows how much you are asking the button to say. The 1.5 inch carries a short piece of text or a symbol on its own. The 2.25 inch takes a logo with one line under it. The 3 inch holds a logo, an event name, a date and a row of sponsor marks without cramping any of them, which is why giveaway artwork so often lands there despite the higher per button price.

Running more than one design on a single order

Nothing forces an order to be one design. A walker badge, a volunteer badge and a sponsor badge can sit on the same order, in one size or in mixed sizes. Each button is priced by its own size, so a mix of 3 inch and 1.5 inch is the two per button figures added up. The shipping tier looks at the total button count across everything on the order, which keeps a three design job inside a single tier.

Four people who tend to place this order

If you are organising the walk itself, your number is the registration list plus a margin for people who turn up on the day. Watch the tier boundary while you set that margin rather than after.

If you are the treasurer signing off the spend, the figure you want is the per button price times the count, plus one shipping tier. Nothing else attaches to it, and nothing changes if the count moves within a tier.

If you are running a team inside a bigger Freeport event rather than the whole event, you are probably ordering a smaller batch in the 1.5 inch size for team identification, and you should keep it on one order with the rest of your team's items if there are any.

If you are the volunteer who inherited the giveaway table after everyone else had made their decisions, the 3 inch is the size that stays legible from across a table, and the artwork you were handed will usually drop onto it without being redrawn.

Answers to the questions organisers ask

Is the price different if our Freeport buttons are given away instead of sold? No. The per button price is the same whether you sell the button, give it to a donor, or pin it on a volunteer. There is no separate rate for fundraising use.

Our Freeport committee wants a little more than 100 buttons. Is there a reason to stop at 100? Only shipping. The per button rate steps down at 100, 250 and 500 of a single size. An order of 100 uses the $9.99 tier and an order just above it uses the $14.99 tier, and that second tier stays $14.99 all the way up to 250 buttons, so if you are going past 100 at all you may as well order the number you genuinely want.

Can one Freeport order carry two different button designs? Yes. Designs do not affect pricing. Each button costs the price of its size, and the shipping tier counts every button on the order regardless of how many designs are involved.

Our Freeport volunteers live in Roosevelt, Merrick and North Merrick. Should we order separately for each? An order ships to one address, so ordering separately means a shipping tier for each address. Keeping it on one order and distributing the buttons at the event pays one tier instead of three.

Which size suits a Freeport fundraiser giveaway table? The 3 inch at $2.49 each holds an event name and a row of sponsor marks together and stays legible at a distance. The 2.25 inch at $1.99 fits a design that is a logo and a single line. The 1.5 inch at $1.89 suits a short piece of text on its own.