Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Jericho, New York

Filling in the address block

An order for Jericho is identified and routed on its street address, because this is one of the places on our coverage list with no ZIP code of its own on file. That sounds like a complication and it is not one. It simply means the address block you fill in at checkout carries the whole job: house or building number, street, town, state. Get those four lines right and the order goes where it should. Everything else on this page is about buttons.

Because there is no postal code sitting in our records for this town, the street line is the part that matters most. Write it the way it appears on mail you already receive at that address, including apartment, suite or unit numbers, and including the building name if the delivery point has one. Nassau County is the county the address belongs to, and New York is the state, both of which are worth putting in plainly rather than abbreviating into something a courier has to interpret.

If your order form software asks for a postal code and refuses to move on without one, enter the code your own mail carries for that address. We do not hold a code for this town on file and we will not guess one for you, so the street line is what we work from either way.

One more note for anyone ordering on somebody else's behalf. The delivery address and the billing address are frequently not the same person's, and for favour orders they very often are not. Put the address where the boxes should physically arrive in the delivery field, not the address of whoever is paying.

Five sizes, and what each one costs

There are five round pin-back buttons and nothing else:

• The 1 inch, $1.49 each
• The 1.25 inch, $1.69 each
• The 1.5 inch, $1.89 each
• The 2.25 inch, $1.99 each
• The 3 inch, $2.49 each

Those areper button rate you can look up per button. There is a discount at 100 of a size, a better one at 250 and the best online one at 500. The honest advice is to order your real headcount and then check one thing: whether a single size is sitting just under 100, 250 or 500. Work out how many you actually need, multiply, and that is the button cost.

All five sizes are full colour and printed from artwork you upload. The size you pick is mostly a design decision, though the gap between the smallest and the largest is a dollar a button, which starts to matter on a long run.

Towns near this one, and how far out it sits

Jericho is 10.1 miles south west of the shop in a straight line, which is a map measurement and nothing to do with roads.

Several places we also cover sit close by, which matters when one event pulls guests or deliveries from more than one address. Hicksville is 1.4 miles away. New Cassel is 2.1 miles away. Muttontown is 2.5 miles away. Syosset and Old Westbury are each 2.9 miles away. If you are coordinating a couple of deliveries for the same weekend, those are the pages worth glancing at alongside this one.

A worked example, 250 favours

Here is a real calculation rather than a range. Say a Jericho order calls for 250 of the 1.5 inch button, which is the size that sits comfortably on a place card or a favour bag.

• 250 buttons at $1.42 each, 25 percent below the listed rate, is $355.00
• Flat shipping for an order that size is $14.99
• Total, before tax, is $369.99

Nothing in that arithmetic depends on the quantity being 250. The per button figure would be $1.89 at 40 pieces and $1.42 at 400. The rate you pay depends on how many of that one size are on the order.

Where the shipping tiers fall

Shipping is a flat charge set by the total number of buttons on the order, counted across every size:

• 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 lands exactly on the top edge of the second tier. Two hundred and fifty buttons ship for $14.99. From 500 to 999 of a size the rate is 30 percent under the listed one. That is the one place where the count is worth checking twice, and it is the only reason quantity affects a total at all.

Artwork that works at favour size

A button is a small round field and the artwork has to survive being cropped into a circle. Anything critical near the edge, a date, a surname, the last letter of a hashtag, is at risk, so keep the important material toward the middle and let the background run off the edge.

The 1.5 inch size holds two short lines of text or a monogram. The 2.25 inch takes a couple of names and a date without crowding. The 3 inch is where a photograph starts to read properly as a photograph rather than a suggestion of one. Full colour means gradients, foil-look printing and photographic backgrounds all reproduce, so you are not restricted to flat shapes.

If a single celebration needs more than one design, that is fine. Different designs can sit on the same order, and the shipping tier still counts the total number of buttons rather than the number of designs.

Who these usually get ordered for

The planner running several clients at once. You are probably placing this order in someone else's name, shipping to a venue or a client's home, and reconciling it against a budget line that has to be exact. The published rate makes that easy: quantity times price, plus one shipping figure, done.

The couple assembling their own favours. You are making decisions in pairs and counting heads off a spreadsheet. Pick the size first, since it changes how much of your design fits, then settle the count. 1,000 of a single size is quoted by a person rather than priced automatically.

The shower host. Smaller counts are ordinary here, and a shower order frequently stays under a hundred buttons, which is the cheapest shipping tier. A single design, one size, and a simple total.

The person ordering as a favour to someone else. Maid of honour, sibling, parent, colleague. You will want the delivery address to be theirs and the receipt to be yours, and that is exactly what the separate billing and delivery fields are for.

Questions people ask

Your site lists no ZIP code for Jericho, so what do I enter at checkout? Enter the full street address, including any unit or suite number, with the town and state written out. If the form insists on a postal code, use the one your own mail for that address carries. We route on the street line.

I am a planner and my office is not in Jericho, but the event is. Where do the boxes go? Wherever you put in the delivery address field. That can be the venue, the client's home or your office. The billing address is a separate field and does not need to match.

If I order 400 buttons instead of 250 for a Jericho wedding, does the price per button drop? No, not between those two counts: 250 and 400 both sit in the 250 to 499 band for a single size. 400 of the 1.5 inch comes in at $1.42 each, 25 percent off the $1.89 listed rate. The only line that changes is shipping, which at 400 buttons falls in the up to 500 tier at $19.99.

What does shipping cost on a smaller Jericho order that stays under 100 buttons? $9.99. That is the flat charge for the first tier, and it applies to the whole order regardless of which of the five sizes you chose.

We need two sizes for one Jericho shower. How does that get priced? Each size is priced at its own rate, on its own count, so you multiply each size by its own figure and add them together. For shipping, add up every button on the order across both sizes and read the single tier that total falls into.