Custom Pin-Back Buttons for North Bellmore, New York

Seven hundred and fifty 3 inch buttons at $1.74 each, the 500 to 999 band, earned by that size's own count, is $1,305.00, the flat shipping on an order that size is $24.99, and the order therefore comes to $1,329.99 before tax. What that buys is a complete badge set for a staffed event: one badge for every person working the floor, full colour, printed from your own artwork, in the largest of the five sizes we make. It is the kind of total an organiser in North Bellmore can put in front of a committee without footnotes, because there is nothing in it that moves later. The per button price is the per button price, and the shipping is a published band rate attached to the size of the order.

Two names, one road apart

This town shares a name root with Bellmore next door, and anyone who has run a mailing for a group spread across both has watched a list sort itself into the wrong piles because a form dropped the first word. It matters less than you might expect on our side. An order is fulfilled against the street address written on it, not against the town label. Where it does matter is on yours: if your volunteer roster carries both spellings and you are counting heads to decide how many badges to order, the two names are easy to double-count. Count people, not entries.

The same caution applies to the ring of places around it. North Merrick sits

1.3 miles away in a straight line, North Wantagh 1.7 miles, Wantagh 2.2 miles, and East Meadow 2.5 miles. Committees drawn from that whole cluster tend to arrive with four overlapping spreadsheets. One reconciled count before ordering saves more money than anything else on this page, because buttons are made to your count and not to a guess.

What each size is actually for

Five round sizes, and nothing else. The 1.5 inch button at $1.89 each is the small one, readable at arm's length, which makes it the honest choice for a plain role word or an initial. The 2.25 inch at $1.99 each is the general purpose badge: it holds a first name and a role on two lines and still leaves room for a logo. The 3 inch at $2.49 each is the one you pick when the badge has to be read across a crowded room, or when it carries a name, a role and an organisation mark together. The worked example above uses the 3 inch precisely because staff and volunteer badges are read at a distance by strangers who have a question and need to know who to ask. The 1 inch at $1.49 carries a single initial or one simple mark, and the 1.25 inch at $1.69 gives a short word a little more room.

You do not have to ask for the discount, because the count applies it. The per button figure is set by the size and by how many of that size you order. The thresholds are 100, 250 and 500 of one size, and they are the only places the rate moves. If someone on the committee asks what the discount looks like at a thousand, the answer is that there isn't one, and the quote you were given at fifty is the quote you get at a thousand.

The one number that does step

Shipping is flat, but it is banded by the total number of buttons on the order. Up to 100 buttons the shipping is $9.99. Up to 250 it is $14.99. Up to 500 it is $19.99. Up to 1000 it is $24.99. Because the bands are counted on the whole order rather than per design, a run that lands a few buttons over a boundary pays the higher band for those few. If your reconciled roster comes out at 255 badges, it is worth asking whether the five spares are really spares, because 255 sits in the $19.99 band and 250 sits in the $14.99 one. If they are real spares, order them. Just do it knowing which side of the line you are on.

Distance, and what it does not change

The straight line distance from the shop to here is 15.2 miles, running south west. That figure is worth stating once and then forgetting, because it has no effect on what you pay. Shipping is banded by button count, not by mileage, so a short haul and a long one pay the same flat figure for the same number of buttons. The distance is useful for orientation inside the county and for nothing else on the invoice.

Artwork when a badge has to carry a role

A staff badge does more work than a souvenir button. It has to answer, at a glance and without a conversation, whether the person wearing it is running the event, selling something, or handing out water. Colour blocking does most of that work. Give each role its own background colour and set the role word larger than the name, because the name matters only once somebody has decided to approach. Keep type well inside the circle, since a round button curves away at the edge and anything near the rim reads at an angle. Full colour printing means a colour-coded set costs no more than a single-colour one.

You can run several designs on one order. Six role colours is six designs, and each button is still priced by its size alone.

Who these orders tend to come from

The event organiser working from a roster. You have a head count that keeps moving and a budget line that does not. Pick the band, then multiply. That is the whole calculation.

The volunteer coordinator. You need people identifiable to the public, not to each other. That usually means fewer words and a bigger size than instinct suggests, which is why the 3 inch tends to win once the room fills up.

The treasurer who has to justify the line. The useful sentence for a minutes entry is the one at the top of this page: a per unit price, a flat shipping figure, a total. No brackets, no conditions, no asterisk about quantity.

The group that will order again. A second run is priced exactly like the first. There is no standing volume to protect and no loyalty tier to lose, so the arithmetic you did once you can reuse.

Questions we get from North Bellmore

Our North Bellmore event needs 750 badges. Does the price per button drop at that volume? Yes, as long as the count is for one size. There are three steps, at 100, 250 and 500 of a single size, worth 20, 25 and 30 percent. The 3 inch button is $2.49 each across the whole 1 to 99 band. At 750 that is $1,305.00 in buttons, plus the $24.99 shipping band that the count falls into, for $1,329.99 before tax.

Our North Bellmore roster came out at 255 badges. Is it worth cutting five? It might be. At 250 buttons the flat shipping band is $14.99, and at 255 you are in the up to 500 band at $19.99. The rate for each size and the one shipping charge are the two figures a bigger count touches.

Do all the badges for our North Bellmore event have to be the same size? No. You can mix 1 inch, 1.25 inch, 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and 3 inch on one order. Each button is priced at its own size, and the shipping band is worked out from the total number of buttons across the whole order.

Our list mixes North Bellmore addresses with ones from the town next door. Does that confuse the order? No. An order goes to the street address you enter on it, and the town label on your own spreadsheet has no bearing on that. The risk sits in your head count rather than in the shipping.

Can different people on our North Bellmore committee each submit their own badge design? Yes. One order can carry as many separate designs as you need, one per role or one per department, and every button is still priced by its size alone.