Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Kings Point, New York

Most people who come to us about spirit buttons are volunteers first and buyers second. A parent on a fundraising committee has a logo the school already uses, a line of text the students voted on, a headcount from a class list, and a budget that has to survive a vote at the next meeting. They are not shopping for a printing experience. They want three things settled: what the artwork needs to look like, what the finished order actually costs down to the last line, and how a box of buttons finds a school building in Kings Point once the order is in. This page answers those three things and nothing else.

Addressing an order when there is no ZIP of your own

Here is the wrinkle that catches fundraiser organisers off guard. Kings Point has no ZIP code of its own on our file, so an order cannot be routed by the usual five digit shorthand. That sounds like a problem and it is not one. The order travels on the street address you type at checkout: building name or number, street, village, state. That is the line the carrier reads and that is the line we print on the label.

What this means in practice is that the street address has to be right, because there is no ZIP sitting behind it as a second check. Spell out the school or building name in full rather than using an acronym the committee uses in email. If the delivery point is a side entrance, a gym lobby, a main office counter or a loading door that is not the front door, write that on the address as well. If the boxes should go to a volunteer's home instead of a school building, use the home address outright rather than the school name with a home street under it. None of this is unusual at our end. It is simply the one field worth reading twice before you submit.

Five sizes, and what each one costs per button

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. Everything is full colour, printed from artwork you upload. If the budget is the binding constraint, the 1 inch at $1.49 and the 1.25 inch at $1.69 are the two to price first.

Read those prices literally, because they are the 1 to 99 rates with nothing added. Those two counts are priced differently now: twelve at the listed rate, and twelve hundred of a single size at a quote rather than an automatic figure. Adding buttons nobody needs is still waste, except in the few counts just below a break, where the larger order is genuinely cheaper. The listed rate holds from one button up to ninety-nine of that size. That makes the buttons line of a fundraiser budget easy arithmetic: pick a size, multiply by the count, and you have it exactly.

A worked example, since committees ask for one

Take a spirit run of 501 of the 2.25 inch button. At $1.39 each, the 500 to 999 band, earned by that size's own count, that is $696.39 in buttons. Shipping on an order of that size is a flat $24.99. The order comes to $721.38 before tax. That is the whole calculation. There is no setup fee hiding under it and no per colour charge, because full colour is how every button is printed.

If a committee is presenting a number to a school board or a PTA vote, that is the figure to present, with tax added according to where the order is delivered.

The one number that moves: shipping

Shipping is flat, and it is charged in tiers based on the total number of buttons on the order. Up to 100 buttons is $9.99. Up to 250 is $14.99. Up to 500 is $19.99. Up to 1000 is $24.99.

Everything up to 999 of a size is priced automatically, and a thousand of one size is where a person takes over. The 501 example above is exactly that situation. Ordering 500 instead of 501 keeps the order inside the $19.99 tier and saves $5.00 in postage. Quantity moves two figures, and the two are counted differently: the rate per size, the shipping across every size.

This is worth a glance before you submit, particularly on fundraiser counts, which tend to be built from a class roster plus a handful of spares and often land a few units over a round number. If your count is 505 or 512, the tier is already spent and there is nothing to optimise. If it is 501 or 502, trimming the spares is a small, real saving.

How far west of us you are, and who else is nearby

The straight line distance from our shop is 18.2 miles, to the west. That is distance on a map and not a measure of anything else, but organisers ask, so there it is.

We also cover the places immediately around Kings Point, which matters when a fundraiser crosses district lines or when a second committee asks who made the buttons. Manorhaven is 1.9 miles away. Great Neck Plaza is 2.3 miles away. Port Washington North is 2.5 miles away. Port Washington is 2.7 miles away. Flower Hill is 2.9 miles away. All of it sits in Nassau County, and the pricing and shipping tiers on this page apply the same way across every one of them.

Four people who place this order

To the PTA treasurer: your line item is a multiplication and a tier lookup. Size price times count, then the shipping band the total count falls into. Nothing else is added at checkout except tax, so the number you bring to the meeting is the number that gets charged.

To the spirit week committee chair: you are probably buying one design in one size for a single week. The 2.25 inch is the size most committees pick for that because it reads across a hallway and still pins to a shirt without pulling. Decide the count before you decide anything else, since the count is what sets the shipping band.

To the booster club running a sales table: you are reselling, so your margin is the gap between $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 or $2.49 and whatever you charge at the table. Your margin per button is the same on the first box and the last one, because every button of a size is charged in the same band, which makes the fundraising target straightforward to work backwards from.

To the school office staffer who inherited this: you did not design the logo and you did not pick the slogan, and you are the one submitting the form. Confirm two things with whoever did, the artwork file and the exact delivery address, and the rest of the form is short.

Questions organisers ask before submitting

Kings Point has no ZIP code on your file. Will our order still ship? Yes. The order is addressed and labelled from the street address you enter, so the building number, street and village carry it. Write the address out in full and include the specific entrance or office if the delivery point is not the main door.

Our Kings Point PTA wants 501 of the 2.25 inch button. What does that come to? $696.39 for the buttons at $1.39 each, the 500 to 999 band, earned by that size's own count, plus $24.99 flat shipping, for $721.38 before tax.

If our Kings Point order goes from 500 buttons to 1,000, does the price per button drop? It does. 500 of one size pays 30 percent under the listed rate, and 1,000 of one size is a quote rather than an automatic price. 500 is charged at 30 percent under the listed rate. 1,000 of one size is the point where a person quotes it instead. The two things a bigger count changes are the band each size is priced in and the one shipping charge on the order.

Can one Kings Point order include more than one size? Yes. Each size is priced at its own per button rate, $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 or $2.49, and the shipping tier is set by the total number of buttons on the order rather than by any single size.

Do you cover the places next to Kings Point as well?

Yes. Manorhaven, Great Neck Plaza, Port Washington North, Port Washington and

Flower Hill are all within 2.9 miles, and everything on this page applies to orders from any of them.