Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Hempstead, New York

What does one hundred three inch buttons actually cost for a party in Hempstead? One hundred of the 3 inch button at $1.99 each, the rate for 100 to 249 of a single size, is $199.00 in buttons. Flat shipping on an order of that size is $9.99. That brings the order to $208.99 before tax, and there is nothing else added underneath it. We put the number first because party planners ask for it first, and because a favor that goes in a gift bag has to be priced before anything else about it can be decided.

Five sizes, and four price bands on each

We make round pin-back buttons in five sizes 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 two smallest are the 1 inch at $1.49 and the 1.25 inch at $1.69.

The break applies to the whole run of that size, not only the buttons above the line. Those two counts are priced differently now: ten at the listed rate, and a thousand of a single size at a quote rather than an automatic figure. There is no bracket you cross where the unit price steps down, no minimum that unlocks a better rate, and no quote to request. If you are building a budget for a sweet sixteen or a fortieth anniversary, you can multiply and stop. The arithmetic you do at the planning stage is the arithmetic on the final order.

This is worth saying plainly because planners are used to holding a decision back until they know how the discount lands. Here there is no discount to wait for.

Two names next door to each other

Orders for this ZIP and orders from South Hempstead arrive with names that look almost identical on a shipping label, and the two places sit about half a mile apart. We cover both, and a few other places within a couple of miles besides: Lakeview, Rockville Centre, Roosevelt and Freeport are all inside two and a quarter miles of each other and of you.

The practical consequence for a party order is small but real. What matters on the order is the delivery address exactly as the carrier will read it, ZIP and all. If the host lives on one side of that line and the venue is on the other, put the address where the boxes should physically land, not the address on the invitation. A guest list that spans both places does not complicate the order at all. It is one order, one address, one flat shipping charge based on the total button count.

We raise it only because people around here are used to explaining the distinction to everyone else, and we would rather you did not have to explain it to us.

Eighteen and a half miles, in a straight line

Hempstead sits 18.5 miles south west of the shop, measured straight across the map rather than along any road. Both are in New York, and this ZIP is in Nassau County.

That number matters for exactly one decision: whether you want the order shipped to you or whether you would rather come and collect it. If shipping, the flat tier below applies and the distance is irrelevant to what you pay. If collecting, the distance is the whole of the information you need.

Where the shipping tier changes, and why one hundred is a useful number

Shipping is flat and it is set by the total number of buttons on the order, not by weight and not by where it is going:

• 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 worked example above sits exactly at the top of the first tier. One hundred buttons ships for $9.99. One hundred and one buttons ships for $14.99, because it has crossed into the next band.

Read that carefully, because the shipping step and the price band break at the same three numbers and they pull in opposite directions. It is not. The per button price is identical on both sides of that boundary. The only thing that changed is the flat shipping charge. So if your guest count is sitting at ninety five and someone suggests rounding up to a hundred and ten as insurance, the honest answer is that the larger order is cheaper: ninety five of the 3 inch at $2.49 plus $9.99 shipping is $246.54, while a hundred and ten at $1.99 plus $14.99 shipping is $233.89. Whether that is worth it depends on how much you dislike running short. It is the one place on the order where fifteen more buttons cost less than none of them.

The same logic applies at 250 and at 500. If you are near one of those numbers, it is worth looking at which side of it you land on before you submit.

The artwork side of a party order

Buttons print in full colour from artwork you upload. For a birthday or an anniversary that usually means one of three things: a photograph, a date and a name set in type, or a small motif repeated across the whole run.

A few things are worth knowing before you upload. A photograph cropped tight on a face reads better at 1.5 inches than a group shot does. Text set small enough to fit a whole sentence on a 1.5 inch button is text nobody at the party will read. And a button is round, so anything square in your original gets trimmed at the corners, which is fine for a pattern and a problem for a rectangular photo you care about.

If you want more than one design in the same order, say a different photo for each decade of a sixtieth, that is normal. Mixed designs do not change the per button price. The count that sets your shipping tier is the total across all the designs.

Who tends to order these

If you are planning a milestone birthday, the 2.25 inch at $1.99 is the size most people land on for a favor that sits at each place setting. It is large enough for a face and a year and small enough to pin to a shirt without dragging.

If you are marking an anniversary, the 3 inch at $2.49 gives a wedding photo enough room to actually be looked at, which is usually the point. That is the size in the worked example above.

If you are a professional planner working several events at once, the published per button rate is the part that changes your workflow. You can quote a client off a multiplication rather than off a bracket table, and the quote does not change if their final headcount moves.

If you are doing this yourself for a family party and have never ordered buttons before, start from the guest count, add a few for the people who ask for a second one, then check which shipping tier that total falls in.

Questions we get from this ZIP

Does the price per button drop if a Hempstead order goes from 100 up to 200? No, not between those two counts: 100 and 200 both sit in the 100 to 249 band for a single size. Every button is the same price for the first ninety-nine of a size. Two hundred of the 3 inch is 200 times $1.99. What changes at 200 is the shipping tier, which moves from $9.99 to $14.99.

Can one Hempstead order be split across two delivery addresses? No. One order goes to one address, and the flat shipping charge covers that one shipment. Two addresses means two orders, each with its own shipping tier based on its own button count.

We are hosting in Hempstead but expect the headcount to move. Should we order at the high end? The extra buttons cost the same as the rest, so the only cost of over ordering is whether the total pushes you across a shipping tier boundary. You do not have to ask for the discount, because the count applies it. If you are thinking about a hundred and twenty, budget $14.99 instead.

Can a Hempstead order use more than one photo across the same run? Yes. Mixed designs in one order are standard and do not affect the per button price. Shipping is still set by the combined total.

Our Hempstead venue and our home address are in different ZIPs. Which goes on the order? Whichever address you want the boxes delivered to. Shipping is flat and set by button count, so the choice between the two costs you nothing either way.