Custom Pin-Back Buttons for New Rochelle

Every order placed from this far west comes down to one decision that is better made early than late: collect the box in person at no charge, or pay the flat shipping charge and have it sent. Neither answer is wrong, and the only bad version is the one nobody actually chose. Most school groups working out of New Rochelle already know which side they fall on, because they either have a parent who is going to be near the shop anyway or they do not. If they do, collection costs nothing. If they do not, shipping is a fixed figure you can put in front of a treasurer before a single button is ordered.

What the trip on a map really is

The straight line distance is 20.3 miles, running west from the shop. That is a line on a map, not a route and not a number of minutes, so treat it as a rough comparison and nothing more. What it is genuinely useful for is this: of everywhere we cover in Westchester County, nowhere is closer to us. The 10801, 10802, 10804 and 10805 ZIP codes sit at the near edge of the whole county from where we stand, and every other Westchester group we work with is further out. That does not make collection the right call for everyone. It does mean that if a collection trip is ever going to be worth someone's afternoon anywhere in the county, it is worth considering here first. If the answer is still no, the flat shipping charge settles it and you never think about the distance again.

Five sizes, and what a hundred of one does

There are five round buttons 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. Those are the prices at twenty five buttons and they are the prices at a thousand buttons. The table is published, so your own total and ours come from the same two numbers. Every button is full colour and printed from artwork you upload. The 1 inch at $1.49 is the least expensive button here, with the 1.25 inch at $1.69 the next one up.

Choosing between the sizes is mostly about how much is on the design. The 1.5 inch suits a single mascot, a letter, a simple two colour crest, the sort of thing a whole grade can wear without anyone squinting. The 2.25 inch is the usual pick once you want a name, a year or a slogan sitting under the logo, because there is room for text at a size people read from a few feet away. The 3 inch is where photographs and busy illustrations belong, and it is the one committees reach for when the design came from a student and has more going on in it than a grown up would have drawn.

A fundraiser run, costed all the way out

Here is a real set of numbers rather than a range. Say the order is 101 of the 1.5 inch button. At $1.51 each, 20 percent off because the count clears 100, the buttons come to $152.51. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $14.99. The order is $167.50 before tax.

You can rebuild that sum for any count and any size by multiplying, because there is no second rate hiding further up the quantity scale. Whatever your committee decides the sale price per button will be, the cost side is one multiplication and one shipping tier.

The five dollars sitting between 100 and 101

Shipping is flat and it is banded by 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.

That is why the example above is worth a second look. At 101 buttons the order has crossed into the second band. Ordering 100 instead keeps it in the $9.99 band and saves $5.00 on postage. Be clear about what that saving is and is not. The buttons themselves do not get cheaper by the each in the 1 to 99 band, so you are not being rewarded for ordering fewer and you would not be rewarded for ordering more. The only thing moving is postage. If your count lands at 101, 102 or 103 for no particular reason, trimming to 100 is free money. If you genuinely need 101, pay the $14.99 and stop thinking about it, because the same $14.99 would carry you all the way to 250.

Nearby groups we work with on the same terms

The area around you is dense with places we already cover, which matters if your order is really a district order or a league order wearing one name. Mount Vernon is 2.9 miles away. Manorhaven is 5.9. Yonkers is 6.2. Port Washington North is 6.3. The Bronx is 6.7. When two schools on that list decide to run one design together, the buttons still cost the same per each for both of them, and the only thing that consolidating changes is which shipping band the combined count lands in. That is occasionally worth a phone call between two fundraising chairs before either of them orders.

Four people who end up placing this order

The three steps are 100, 250 and 500, counted per size. Pick your sale price, subtract the per button cost, and you have your margin per unit before you have decided anything else. The shipping band is a single line added once at the bottom, not a per unit cost, so it thins out as the count grows.

If you are the treasurer signing off, you want the total to be defensible at a meeting. It is two lines. Count multiplied by the published per button rate for that size, plus one shipping figure from a published band. There is no minimum order surcharge hiding underneath and no rate that only some buyers get.

If you are the student council advisor, your problem is usually that the design came from a student and nobody has looked at it at full size. Decide the size before you finalise the art, not after. A drawing built for a 3 inch face does not simply shrink onto a 1.5 inch face and stay readable.

If you are the volunteer who inherited all of this in week two, the shortest path is to settle three things in order: which size, how many, collect or ship. Everything else on the order follows from those three answers.

Questions we actually get from this corner of Westchester

Our New Rochelle PTA needs 101 buttons. Is it worth dropping to 100? Yes, if the extra button is not doing real work. Going from 101 to 100 moves the order back into the $9.99 shipping band and saves $5.00. A hundred of one size is the first point where the per button figure drops.

Does the price per button drop if our New Rochelle group orders 500 instead of 100? Yes, within a single size. 100 of the 1.5 inch is $1.51 each and 500 of it is $1.32 each, because 500 reaches the 500 to 999 band. Sizes are priced separately, so it is a hundred of one size that earns the break. At 500 of one size you are paying $1.32 each on the 1.5 inch, $1.39 on the 2.25 inch and $1.74 on the 3 inch. The listed rate holds from one button up to ninety-nine of that size.

Can someone from New Rochelle collect the order rather than pay for shipping? Yes. Local collection is free and it is open to you like anyone else, which is why the choice between collecting and shipping is the first thing this page raises.

Our New Rochelle order mixes 1.5 inch and 3 inch buttons. How is the shipping band worked out? On the total number of buttons on the order, not per size. Sixty of the 1.5 inch and sixty of the 3 inch is 120 buttons, which sits in the $14.99 band.

Is New Rochelle really the closest part of Westchester County to you? Of everywhere we cover in the county, yes. At 20.3 miles in a straight line, nothing else in Westchester sits nearer to the shop.