Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Islip Terrace, New York

The person placing this kind of order is almost always the one holding the membership list: a club secretary, a society treasurer, a committee chair who agreed at some meeting to sort out pins for everybody and now has a roster, a logo of some description, and a number to hit. It is rarely a design job. It is an administrative one, and what it needs is a rate you can look up for your count, a count that is easy to check against the roster, and a single line item to put in front of the people who approve the spending. That is the order this page is written for, and it is the order we see from organisers in Islip Terrace.

Five sizes, and the count that sets the rate

There are five round pin-back buttons and nothing beyond them. The 1.5 inch is

$1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. All five are printed in full colour from artwork you upload.

The breaks in the rate are published rather than negotiated. The per button figure on a small order is the per button figure on a large one. Rounding a count up pays off when it crosses 100, 250 or 500 of the same size. Anywhere else it just buys you buttons you did not need. The buttons line of your budget is straight multiplication: roster count times the price of the size you chose.

The 1.5 inch is the usual choice for a member pin worn on a lapel or a collar. The 2.25 inch carries more of a crest or a wordmark. The 3 inch is a display piece, pinned to a bag or a board rather than a jacket. Size is a question of what the artwork has to hold. Under those are the 1 inch at $1.49 and the 1.25 inch at $1.69, both pin-backed and full colour like the rest.

A hundred pins, worked all the way through

Take the most ordinary version of this order: 100 of the 1.5 inch button. At $1.51 each, the rate for 100 to 249 of a single size, that is $151.00 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $9.99. The order comes to $160.99 before tax.

That is the whole calculation. There is no setup charge hiding behind it and no per colour charge, because the printing is full colour regardless of how busy the artwork is. For a smaller count, multiply that count by $1.89 and add the same $9.99. The table is published, so your own total and ours come from the same two numbers.

Where the shipping tier turns over

Shipping is flat and it is decided by the total number of buttons on the order, not by their size and not by how many separate designs you have put on them.

Up to 100 buttons, shipping is $9.99. Up to 250 buttons, shipping is $14.99. Up to 500 buttons, shipping is $19.99. Up to 1000 buttons, shipping is $24.99.

The one place this is worth a second look is a count sitting just over a boundary. A club ordering a few buttons past 100 is in the up to 250 tier at $14.99, the same as a club ordering 250. If that handful above 100 are spares rather than member pins, trimming the order back to 100 returns it to the $9.99 tier. If they are real members, order for real members and pay the $14.99. The point is only that the boundary is worth knowing about before you place the order, because it is the one figure on the invoice that jumps rather than scales.

A roster that does not stop at the hamlet line

Club membership is drawn from wherever people are willing to travel, which is why a roster kept in Islip Terrace so often reads like a list of several different places. The five nearest places we also cover are all close in: North Great River at 1.1 miles, East Islip at 1.9, Islip at 1.9, Central Islip at 2.1 and Oakdale at 2.8. None of them is further off than 2.8 miles.

For an organiser this matters in a dull but useful way. A membership scattered across several of those names is still one order, one design and one published per button rate per button. You add up the people, you order that many buttons, and the tier is worked out on that single number.

Where the town sits relative to us

Islip Terrace, ZIP 11752, is in the Town of Islip in Suffolk County. The shop is 14.2 miles to its north west, measured straight line, which puts the town to our south east. That is a distance on a map rather than a route, and it is here because people ask, not because it changes anything about the order. The prices above are the prices at any distance.

Artwork that still reads at an inch and a half

A club emblem was usually drawn to sit on a banner or a letterhead, and most carry more detail than a 1.5 inch circle can hold. Before you commit a crest to the 1 inch, look at it small: thin outlines close up, small lettering fills in, and a motto set in a ring around the edge loses its finer strokes. If the emblem is fussy, the 2.25 inch usually rescues it, and a chapter name or a year can be dropped to give the central device room.

A round button also curves at its edge, so anything sitting hard against the rim wraps out of sight. Keep text and outer rings pulled in, and leave a plain margin all the way around.

Four people this page is for

The officer running a civic club. You have a fixed membership, an annual pin, and a budget line that has to be the same number every year. The published rate for each band is the useful part here: your count times $1.89 or $1.99, plus one shipping figure, and the request writes itself.

The society organising a swap or a show. Your count is not your membership, it is whoever turns up, so you are guessing. Guess in whole tiers. Any count from just above 100 up to 250 ships at the same $14.99, so spares are cheap to carry.

The booster committee. You are ordering for players, siblings and parents, and the 2.25 inch tends to win because a team crest with a number on it needs the room. Count heads generously and remember the totals add up across sizes.

The lodge or chapter marking service. Small counts, often mixed sizes so that a milestone pin is the 3 inch and everyone else is the 1.5 inch. Nothing about a small run is priced differently. Pick the band, then multiply. That is the whole calculation.

Questions we get asked

Is there a discount if our Islip Terrace club orders 250 pins rather than a short run?

Yes, and it is worth knowing where the steps are. 250 of the 1.5 inch is $1.42 each rather than $1.89, because 250 sits in the 250 to 499 band. At 250 of the 1.5 inch the rate is $1.42 each rather than $1.89, because 250 clears the 250 break. The rate band and the shipping tier both step, and they are counted from different totals.

Our Islip Terrace roster came in a few names above 100. What does that do to the order?

The ladder has four rungs per size and the lowest online one is 500 to 999. The shipping moves from the up to 100 tier at $9.99 into the up to 250 tier at $14.99, because the tier is set by total buttons on the order.

What does a run of 100 of the 1.5 inch button come to for an Islip Terrace order?

$151.00 in buttons, $9.99 in flat shipping, so $160.99 before tax.

Some of our members live outside Islip Terrace, in the hamlets beside it. Does that change the pricing?

No. The five sizes are the same printed rate ladder for all of the nearby places listed above, and a membership spread across several of them is still one order with one shipping tier worked out on the combined count.

Can an Islip Terrace order mix the 1.5 inch and the 3 inch on one order?

Yes. Each size keeps its own rate, chosen by how many of it you order, and the two counts add together to decide which shipping tier the order falls into.