Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Hewlett, Nassau County

"Does the price per button drop if I order three hundred instead of one hundred?" That is the question we get first from Hewlett, and the honest answer is no. Twenty is charged at the listed rate. A thousand of one size is the point where a person quotes it instead. A 2.25 inch button is $1.99, and the bands above 99 take 20, 25 or 30 percent off. A 3 inch button is $2.49, up to ninety-nine of that size, whatever else is on the order. A hundred of a size earns 20 percent, and the saving applies to all hundred. Count one size for the rate and every size for the postage. Once you know that, planning a favour order becomes arithmetic instead of negotiation.

Five sizes, and that is the whole catalogue

We make round pin-back buttons in 1 inch, 1.25 inch, 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and 3 inch, full colour, printed from artwork you upload. There is no fourth size, no square shape, no magnet back. The narrowness is deliberate. For favours, the 1.5 inch is the usual pick, because it sits on a place card or a favour bag without taking the whole thing over. The 2.25 inch carries more artwork: a monogram with a date under it, or a short line of text below an illustration. The 3 inch is what people choose when the button is meant to be the centrepiece of a place setting rather than an accent beside it.

What a real favour order comes to

Take a common shape for a shower or a reception: 150 of the 1.5 inch button. At $1.51 each, the 100 to 249 band, earned by that size's own count, that is $226.50 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $14.99. The order comes to $241.49 before tax. None of that is an estimate you have to write in and ask for. You can rebuild the whole total on a calculator before you ever start an order, and it will match.

The tier edge worth knowing about

Flat shipping is charged on the total number of buttons on the order. Up to 100 buttons it is $9.99. Up to 250 it is $14.99. Up to 500 it is $19.99. Up to 1000 it is $24.99. Look at what that does at the boundaries. An order of 101 buttons pays the same $14.99 as an order of 250 buttons. So if your guest count has landed at 105 and you are debating whether to round up to 150, the shipping line will not charge you for the decision. You are already in the second tier and everything up to 250 rides inside it. The same holds at 251 and at 501. The buttons themselves are charged in the same band at 105 as at 150, so rounding up costs you the extra buttons and nothing more.

Twenty two miles to the south west

Hewlett sits 22.7 miles from the shop in a straight line, to the south west. That is a genuine distance rather than a neighbourhood hop, so most orders heading that direction ship rather than get collected. Free local pickup exists if somebody in the party is already making that trip for another reason, but nobody should build a plan around it.

Two neighbours sitting at the same figure

The map does something unusual here. East Rockaway is 1.4 miles away and Lynbrook is also 1.4 miles away, identical to the tenth of a mile. South Valley Stream is 1.5 miles, Valley Stream is 1.6 miles, and Woodmere is 1.7 miles. That is five covered towns inside a two mile radius. If the people involved in one event are scattered across those addresses, the gaps between them are small, and that changes how it is worth structuring a single order.

Splitting an order between two addresses

Shipping is flat per order, so an order that gets split pays the flat charge twice. Put 150 buttons on one order and shipping is $14.99. Split the same 150 into two orders of 75 and you pay $9.99 on each, which is $19.98. The per button price is $1.89 in both cases; only the shipping doubles. If one person can take delivery of the full count and hand the second half over directly, that is the cheaper structure. With East Rockaway and Lynbrook both 1.4 miles out and Woodmere at 1.7, that handoff is not much of an errand.

Who these orders usually come from

The planner running several events at once. You are pricing favours for more than one couple and you want a number you can put in a proposal without caveats. It is the count times $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 or $2.49, plus one shipping tier per order. Nothing in that total depends on how big the job is.

The couple doing their own favours. You have one illustration, a set of initials and a date, and you want 150 of them without a minimum order conversation. Upload the artwork, pick the size, pick the count.

The parent hosting the shower. The guest list moved twice and will probably move again. Since the price per button is fixed, adding another twenty to the count adds exactly twenty times the unit price, and it will not push you into a different shipping tier unless it crosses 100, 250, 500 or 1000.

The coordinator assembling a package for a Hewlett venue. You are combining favours with everything else on the invoice and you need a line item that will not be renegotiated later. The figure listed is what 1 to 99 of that size costs each.

Questions people ask before ordering

Can I put favours for a Hewlett wedding and a separate shower on the same order? Yes. One order can carry mixed artwork and mixed sizes. The shipping tier is set by the total number of buttons on that order, so combining two sets of favours often keeps them inside one tier instead of two.

Half our guests are in Hewlett and half are in East Rockaway. Can you ship to both addresses on one order? Each order goes to one address and carries one flat shipping charge. Two addresses means two orders and therefore two shipping charges. Since East Rockaway is only 1.4 miles away, most people order once and split the box by hand.

Does a Hewlett delivery address change the price per button? No. The rate steps at three counts and holds level between them. Only the flat shipping tier varies, and it varies by button count, not by where the order is going.

I need 150 favours for a Hewlett shower. Is the per button price better than it would be at 50? It is identical. 150 of the 1.5 inch is 150 times $1.51, which is $226.50. Fifty of the same button is fifty times $1.89. The difference between the two orders is the shipping tier: fifty buttons falls in the $9.99 band and 150 falls in the $14.99 band.

We do not have a ZIP code on your form for Hewlett. What should we enter? Use the full street address exactly as mail arrives there. Orders are matched on the street address, so you do not need to hunt for a code to make the form accept the order.

A note on the artwork

Everything is printed from what you upload, at full colour, across all five sizes. A monogram, a photograph, a line drawing, a date, a pattern: the press does not care which, and the price does not change with how much ink is on the face. One design across 150 buttons and six designs across the same 150 cost the same, because the cost is per button and per button only. For favour orders that usually means there is no reason to simplify a design down for budget reasons. Price it by count and size, and leave the artwork alone.