Custom Pin Back Buttons for North Patchogue, New York

A club organiser usually turns up to this kind of order holding two things: a membership list with a number at the bottom of it, and an emblem that has existed for years as one image file nobody has touched since it was drawn. What they want is easy to say and fiddly to arrange. One pin per member, all identical, in a size people will actually put on a jacket. That is the order this page is written for: societies, hobby groups, service clubs, alumni chapters and committees who are not browsing for a novelty but working from a roster. We make round pin back buttons in five sizes and nothing else, printed full colour from artwork you upload, and the pricing below is the whole of it.

Five sizes, and how a club usually picks one

The 1.5 inch button is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. Ninety-nine of a size costs more in total than a hundred of it, which is worth a second look at a boundary. Ordering ten does not cost more per pin than ordering a thousand, and ordering a thousand does not cost less per pin than ordering ten. Set the count from the list, then ask one question: is any single size a few buttons short of a break? For a lapel pin rather than a badge, the 1 inch is $1.49 and the 1.25 inch is $1.69.

So the size decision is about how the pin reads rather than about hunting a threshold. The 1.5 inch suits a plain emblem, a monogram or a single short word. The 2.25 inch is the size most people picture when they hear button, and it carries an emblem plus a line of text underneath without the text going thin. The 3 inch gives you room for a crest, a year, a chapter name and a role line all at once, which is why committees who want the pin to say what somebody does, not just which group they are in, tend to land there.

What a seventy five member order actually comes to

Take a group ordering 75 of the 3 inch button. At $2.49 each that is $186.75 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $9.99, so the order comes to $196.74 before tax. Nothing else is added and nothing is taken off for the quantity. If the same group had chosen the 2.25 inch instead, the per button price would drop to $1.99 because the size is cheaper, not because seventy five is a magic number.

The one number that moves your total

The rate band and the shipping tier both step, and they are counted from different totals. Up to 100 buttons on the order is $9.99. Up to 250 is $14.99. Up to 500 is $19.99. Up to 1000 is $24.99.

The tier counts total buttons on the order, not buttons of one size, so a committee splitting an order across two sizes should add both numbers together before deciding. Look at your roster, then at the nearest tier edge above it. A group of ninety eight deciding whether to add a handful of spares is sitting right under a boundary, and a few extra pins there will move the shipping line rather than the button line.

Sharing a name root with the places next door

The name causes more order trouble here than anywhere else we cover. Patchogue sits 1.4 miles away and East Patchogue 2.4 miles away, and all three names look nearly identical on a shipping label written in a hurry. We cover all of them, along with Holtsville at 1.8 miles, Blue Point at 2.2 miles and Holbrook at 2.5 miles, so there is no wrong answer in terms of whether we serve you. There is only a wrong answer in terms of where the box goes.

Write North Patchogue on the order if that is the address you want the pins sent to, and use the 11772 ZIP code exactly as it appears on your normal mail. If your club correspondence and your delivery address are not the same place, tell us the delivery one. Club orders often get placed by a secretary sitting somewhere else entirely, which is the usual root of a mix up.

How far east of us you are

North Patchogue sits 20.5 miles east of us in a straight line, measured point to point rather than along any road. It is worth stating plainly because club organisers often assume that distance changes what an order costs, and here it does not. The per button price is the same figure wherever the order comes from, and the shipping line is set by the tier your quantity falls into, not by how far east in Suffolk County you happen to be.

Getting a club emblem onto a circle

Most club artwork was never drawn for a circle. Crests with a flat base, banner ribbons and long chapter names all want a rectangle, and a round button will crop whatever hangs past the edge. Two things help. First, leave a margin of empty space all the way around the design, because the outer rim of a button wraps slightly and anything sitting right on the edge disappears around the curve. Second, judge text at the actual printed size rather than on screen. A chapter name that reads cleanly on a 3 inch pin can become a grey smear at 1.5 inch, and the fix is usually to drop a line of text rather than to shrink the type.

Full colour costs the same as one colour, so there is no reason to simplify a crest for the sake of the print.

Four orders that come through a club year

The new member intake. A society admitting a group at once wants every new pin to match the ones already in circulation, so the useful thing to send is a photo of an existing pin alongside the artwork file.

The roster that outgrew its pins. A group that ordered against last year's list and has since grown usually wants a top up, and the thing to check is the tier boundary, because a small top up order carries the same flat shipping as a large one.

The treasurer working to a fixed budget. With a published band rate, the budget maths is one multiplication plus one shipping tier. If the number comes out over, the lever is the size, not the quantity.

The committee that wants two tiers of pin. Officers on the 3 inch, general membership on the 1.5 inch. That is one order, and the shipping tier counts every pin in it together.

Questions we get asked

Our club meets in North Patchogue and we need one pin per member. Do we pay less per button if we order more? It does now. The ladder is per size: 1 to 99, 100 to 249, 250 to 499 and 500 to 999, with the best online rate in the last of those. The three discounts are 20, 25 and 30 percent, each earned by one size's own count. Two hundred pins cost exactly two hundred times the single pin price.

We want 75 of the 3 inch button for a North Patchogue society. What does that come to? $186.75 for the buttons, plus $9.99 flat shipping for an order that size, so $196.74 before tax.

Our North Patchogue roster is just under a hundred and we want spares. Where does the shipping change? The $9.99 tier covers up to 100 buttons on the order. Cross 100 and the order moves into the up to 250 tier at $14.99. If you are at ninety something, you have only a few spares of headroom before that step.

Our mail comes as Patchogue but the club is in North Patchogue. Which do we put on the order? Put the address exactly as your post arrives, including the 11772 ZIP. We cover both places, so the name on the order is purely about delivery, never about eligibility.

Our North Patchogue group wants officer pins and member pins in one order. How is shipping worked out? On the total number of buttons across the whole order, regardless of how many sizes it contains. Forty of one size and sixty of another is a hundred buttons, which is one shipping tier, not two.