Custom Pin-Back Buttons for North Bellport

How many buttons should a band in North Bellport put on the merch table, and what does a run like that come to? The honest answer is that the second half of the question is far easier than the first, because the rate for any count is published before you order it. A button costs what it costs whether you order a handful or several hundred, so you can work out any plan with one multiplication and then decide how brave you feel. We make five sizes of round pin-back button, full colour, printed from artwork you upload. That is the whole catalogue: no finishes to choose between and no minimum that forces your hand.

Five sizes, and how bands tend to split them

The 1.5 inch button is $1.89. The 2.25 inch is $1.99. The 3 inch is $2.49. Those are the prices per button, and they are the prices per button, for the first ninety-nine of each size. At the small end the 1 inch is $1.49 and the 1.25 inch is $1.69, which are the two worth looking at when the count is high and the design is simple.

The 1.5 inch is the classic pin for a jacket lapel or a tote strap. It holds a logo, a symbol, a short word, and it is the one people take two of without thinking. The 2.25 inch is the workhorse: a band name and a piece of artwork both fit legibly, and it still reads from across a table. The 3 inch is a statement piece. Album art fits on it, a face fits on it, and a full illustration with small type in the corner still reads, which is why acts with a real cover design land there.

Plenty of orders mix sizes. Each size is charged at its own count and so its own rate, so a mixed order holds no arithmetic surprise.

What a run of 400 of the big one costs

Here is a worked example rather than a range. Four hundred of the 3 inch button at $1.87 each, the 250 to 499 rate for that size, is $748.00 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $19.99. The order comes to $767.99 before tax.

Each size climbs its own ladder, and 100 is the first rung. The 3 inch is $2.49 each at ninety and $1.99 each at a hundred, a difference the 100 to 249 band accounts for. Whatever quantity you are weighing up, read the rate for it off the bands above, multiply, and the number you get is the number.

The one place your quantity actually changes something

Shipping is flat, and it steps by the total number of buttons on the order:

• up to 100 buttons $9.99
• up to 250 buttons $14.99
• up to 500 buttons $19.99
• up to 1000 buttons $24.99

Count one size for the rate and every size for the postage. An order that lands a little over 250 pays the $19.99 tier, while an order that lands at or under 250 pays $14.99. At 250 and 251 the buttons cost the same each, so trimming back to 250 keeps five dollars of postage in the band fund. Trimming below 250 is a different decision, because 249 of a size pays 20 percent off where 250 pays 25. If the extra handful matters, pay the tier. The point is only that the step is there.

Twenty four miles east

North Bellport sits 24.2 miles east of Huntington in a straight line. That is a fact about geography and nothing else: it does not change the price of a button, it does not change the shipping tier, and it does not change what your artwork needs to look like. Distance on this site is measured straight line, not by road.

People ask, usually while working out whether ordering from the other end of

Suffolk County is sensible. It is. Shipping is priced by how many buttons are in the box, not by how far the box travels.

Your neighbours are unusually close together

The five nearest places we also cover are all within 3.9 miles: East Patchogue at 2.2 miles, Medford at 3.2, Yaphank at 3.3, Patchogue at 3.7 and North Patchogue at 3.9. That is a tight cluster, and for a band it changes the maths on a merch run.

If the guitarist is in one of those and the drummer is in another and the person who handles the merch box is somewhere in the middle, you are not coordinating across a county. You are coordinating across a few miles, so one person can hold the whole order and everyone can get at it. That means you can order once, as a band, rather than four people each ordering a small batch and each paying their own shipping tier. One order of 400 pays $19.99 in shipping. Four orders of 100 pay $9.99 each, which is $39.96, for the same number of buttons at the same price per button. Pooling is the only lever you have, and here it is an easy one to pull.

Getting the artwork right

Buttons are round and a rim of the printed area wraps around the edge of the shell, so anything you need people to read should sit inside the middle rather than hugging the boundary. Centre the logo. Keep small type away from the edge. If your cover art is square, decide deliberately what the circle crops out.

Full colour means full colour, so gradients and photographs are fair game. A dark background with a bright mark on it reads well from a distance, which is usually what a merch table needs. Send the highest resolution version you have.

Four ways this order usually starts

The solo act playing their first few shows. You want something on the table that is not a shirt, because shirts mean sizes and sizes mean inventory. A hundred of the 1.5 inch at $1.51 is $151.00 in buttons plus $9.99 shipping.

The four-piece splitting the cost. Everyone throws in the same amount and one person places the order. Splitting a run across separate orders splits the count that earns the discount, which is the new reason to keep it together.

The friend who draws for the band. You have been handed the artwork job and want to know what the circle will do to your drawing before you commit an evening to it. Five sizes, one shape. Design once, and the same file can go out at 1.5, 2.25 and 3 inch on a single order.

The person running the table who is not in the band. You want a giveaway cheap enough to hand out that looks like it cost more. The 2.25 inch at $1.99 is the usual answer, priced the same on the tenth one you give away as on the first.

Questions from bands and merch tables

Does being 24.2 miles from the shop make an order to North Bellport cost more than one going somewhere closer? No. Shipping is a flat tier based on the total number of buttons on the order, and distance is not part of that calculation.

If a North Bellport band orders 400 buttons instead of 100, does the price per button come down? It does, in three steps. 100 of the 3 inch is $1.99 each and 400 of it is $1.87 each, because 400 reaches the 250 to 499 band. A hundred of a size earns 20 percent, and the saving applies to all hundred. Four hundred of the 3 inch is $1.87 each against $1.99 at one hundred, because 400 sits in the 250 to 499 band.

What does 400 of the 3 inch button come to for a band in North Bellport? The buttons are $748.00. Flat shipping for an order that size is $19.99. The total is $767.99 before tax.

Can a North Bellport band put two different designs on one order? Yes. Each button is charged at the published per button rate for its size, and the shipping tier is worked out from the total number of buttons across the whole order, not per design.

Our members are spread between North Bellport, Medford and Patchogue. Is it better to order separately or together? Together. One combined order of 400 buttons falls in the $19.99 shipping tier, while four separate orders of 100 each pay $9.99, for $39.96 in total. The combined order is cheaper twice over: one shipping tier instead of four, and 400 of a size earns 25 percent off where 100 of it earns 20.