Custom Pin-Back Buttons for North Amityville, New York

Two names built on the same root

An order for North Amityville is identified by the ZIP code sitting on the shipping line before anyone gets as far as reading the town field, so the first thing worth getting right is that 11701 and 11726 both belong to this address. Enter the ZIP, let the rest of the address fall in behind it, then read the town field once more and confirm the two agree. Almost everything that goes sideways on an order into this corner of Suffolk County goes sideways at that one field, and it happens to be the field a customer controls completely.

The town name here is built on the same root as the name of the place next door. Amityville sits 1.7 miles away and is covered on this site as well, so both names turn up in the same week and occasionally inside the same conversation. For a button order that matters in a specific, practical way. The artwork proof, the invoice and the shipping label are three separate strings of text, and if the town field gets shortened on one of them, a person skimming the set will reconcile them the wrong way without noticing there was a choice to make. Spell the town out in full, first word included, on every line that asks for it. That one habit removes the only genuine ambiguity in ordering from this address.

Five sizes, and what each one costs

There are five round pin-back buttons and nothing else. The 1 inch is $1.49 each, the 1.25 inch is $1.69 each, the 1.5 inch is $1.89 each, the 2.25 inch is $1.99 each, and the 3 inch is $2.49 each. All five are full color, printed from artwork you upload.

Two designs at the same size count as one quantity for the discount. There is no point in the count where it steps down, which means the per button figure above is the figure you can plan an entire run against. Quantity now has two consequences, one on the rate for a size and one on the postage for the order.

On size, the 1.5 inch works when buttons are handed out loose from a bowl on a table and people are pinning them to a lanyard tab or a shirt placket. The 2.25 inch is the general purpose choice, and the one most people land on with no strong reason to go either way. The 3 inch gives the most printed area, so it is the one to reach for when the artwork carries small type, a long URL, a QR code, or a logo with fine internal detail that collapses at a smaller diameter.

A run of 500 worked all the way through

Five hundred of the 1.5 inch button at $1.32 each, the published 500 to 999 figure, is $660.00 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $19.99. The order comes to $679.99 before tax.

Nothing in that total is a per unit discount. The $1.89 is simply the price of that button, and it would be the price of that button at any other count you chose to run.

Where the shipping tier steps, and where nothing steps at all

Flat shipping is set by the total number of buttons on the order. Up to 100 is $9.99. Up to 250 is $14.99. Up to 500 is $19.99. Up to 1000 is $24.99.

Worth noticing in the example above: 500 sits exactly at the top of the $19.99 tier. Go past it and the shipping line becomes $24.99, while every button on the order still costs precisely what it cost before. If your count is drifting upward while you plan, the tier boundary is the only part of the order that reacts to the drift. The button price does not.

Running more than one design on a single order

Buttons are printed from the artwork you upload, so a run can carry several different designs rather than one repeated. Every button costs the same regardless of which design is on it, since the price is attached to the size and not to the number of images in the job.

The reason to keep multiple designs on one order rather than splitting them is the shipping line. The tier is calculated from the total button count on the order, so one order carrying three designs pays one flat shipping charge, while three separate orders each pay their own. That is the whole of the arithmetic, and it is worth doing before you split anything up.

Where this town sits relative to us

North Amityville is 12.4 miles south of the shop in a straight line. That is a straight line figure and nothing else, not a route and not a measure of travel.

The nearby places this site also covers sit close in around it: North Lindenhurst at 1.6 miles, the similarly named neighbour at 1.7 miles, South Farmingdale at 2.0 miles, East Massapequa at 2.0 miles, and East Farmingdale at 2.2 miles. If you are ordering on behalf of people spread across more than one of those addresses, the distances are small but the orders are still separate orders, each with its own shipping tier based on its own button count.

Who tends to order this way

If you are the person running a single exhibit table, you are usually buying one design in one size and handing it to whoever stops. The 2.25 inch tends to suit that, and a round number like 500 keeps you sitting inside a known shipping tier rather than straddling one.

If you are staffing a shared booth on behalf of a group, you are likely carrying more than one design, one per organisation or one per chapter. Keep them on a single order so the shipping tier is calculated once across the whole button count.

If you are the person presenting a session and you want something small to leave behind, the 3 inch is usually the right call, because the thing you want on it is a URL or a code rather than a logo, and that needs the printed area.

If you are the coordinator ordering for staff who will be split across separate tables, work out your total button count first and check it against the tier boundaries before deciding how to divide the artwork. The count decides the shipping line. The division of artwork does not.

Questions people ask

My card is registered in Amityville and the buttons are going to North Amityville. Is that a problem? No. The billing address and the shipping address are read separately, and they are not required to match. Just make sure the shipping address is the one you have written out in full.

Does the price per button drop if I order 500 for North Amityville instead of a smaller count? It does now. 500 of the 1.5 inch is $1.32 each rather than $1.89, because 500 sits in the 500 to 999 band. Four bands per size, with the boundaries at 100, 250, 500 and 1,000. A 1.5 inch button is $1.89 up to ninety-nine and $1.32 at 500. The per button rate is a per size question and the shipping tier is a whole order question.

Which ZIP code belongs on a shipping line for North Amityville, 11701 or 11726? Both serve this town. Use whichever one matches the specific street address you are shipping to rather than picking one by default, and leave the town name written out in full alongside it.

I am bringing three designs to a booth and all of them ship to North Amityville. Is that one order or three? One order. Multiple designs can sit on a single order, every button is priced the same regardless of design, and the shipping tier is worked out once from the combined button count.

If half my run goes to North Amityville and half goes to South Farmingdale, how does the flat shipping work? Each destination is its own order, so each gets its own shipping tier based on its own button count. Two orders of 250 buttons each land in the $14.99 tier individually rather than combining into a single $19.99 charge, so it is worth checking both counts against the tiers before you place them.