Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Noyack, New York

North Sea is 4.8 miles off, Shelter Island 5.4, Northwest Harbor 6.2, and

Southold and Cutchogue sit at 7.1 and 7.5, which puts all five inside the same short loop of Suffolk County road and water. A single team roster is often drawn from several of them at once, so one box of supporter buttons gets split between parents whose houses are nowhere near each other. That is the normal shape of a button order out this way, and it is worth setting up correctly the first time.

We print full colour round pin-back buttons in five sizes, 1 inch, 1.25 inch, 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and 3 inch, from artwork you upload, and we do not print anything else. This page is written for people ordering into Noyack, where the practical wrinkle is not the printing. It is the address line.

Getting the box to the right door

We hold no ZIP code of our own for Noyack. Orders are keyed to the street address instead, which sounds like a problem and is not one, as long as you fill the address in the way your own mail is already addressed. House number, street name, town line, state. Copy it off an envelope that reaches you if you are not sure. Do not improvise a postal code to fill a blank, and do not substitute a neighbouring hamlet's name because it looks tidier on the form. The street line is the part that carries the order.

For a team order this matters more than it does for one person buying one button, because a team order tends to be assembled by a volunteer and then handed out at a field or a parking lot. Put one delivery address on the order, the address of whoever is actually going to be holding the box and doing the handing out. Splitting a roster's buttons across several households on one order is how things go missing. One address, one box, one person distributing.

Five sizes, and how people usually choose

The 1.5 inch is the one most people have worn without noticing. It reads at arm's length and sits well on a jacket lapel or a bag strap without pulling the fabric. A jersey number, a set of initials, a short word, a single mascot head. If you want every kid on the bench to have something and you want it unobtrusive, this is the size.

The 2.25 inch is the one most people picture when they say button. A photo and a name both fit at a legible scale. It is the workhorse for a parent section.

The 3 inch is the one you can read from the stands. A player photo, a big number, a full team name across the face. Grandparents tend to want this size specifically, because they want the face large.

What an actual order comes to

The three steps are 100, 250 and 500, counted per size. Twelve of a size pay the listed figure and five hundred of it pay 30 percent less. 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. Order the count you actually need, with one exception worth checking: if you are a handful short of 100, 250 or 500 of a single size, the bigger order can come to less than the smaller one.

Worked through with real figures: 40 of the 3 inch button at $2.49 each is $99.60 in buttons. Flat shipping on an order that size is $9.99, which brings the order to $109.59 before tax. That is the whole calculation. There is nothing further added to it.

What the count does to the rate

Shipping is a flat tier based on the total number of buttons on the order, all sizes counted together:

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

The example above, 40 buttons, sits well inside the first tier. You could add sixty more buttons in any mix of sizes and the shipping line would not change at all. Push one button past 100 and the order steps into the next tier at $14.99. So if you have counted up 102 or 104 and you are not certain about the last few, that is the one place a recount is worth doing. The per button price is identical on either side of that line, so the tier is the only thing in play.

The distance is worth stating once, in this context and not as a headline. Noyack lies 55.1 miles east of the shop, measured straight line. That distance is exactly why the shipping tier is the number to check on a team order, rather than anything else on the page.

Preparing the artwork for a team run

You upload the artwork and we print it in full colour. A few things make the result look the way you pictured it. Keep anything you need to read, a name, a number, a year, away from the very outer edge of the circle, because the printed face wraps around the curve of the button and the outermost ring of the design turns away from the viewer. Team colours behave better with real contrast between the background and the lettering. A photo works best cropped tight on the face before you upload it, not left as a wide shot with the subject small in the frame.

Who is usually holding this order

If you are the parent who got volunteered at the end of a meeting: you want one size, one design, and a count that matches the roster with a handful spare for the siblings who will ask. Order the spares. A hundred of one size is the first point where the per button figure drops.

If you are the coach or the team manager: you are probably ordering for the bench and the parent section in one go, and your total will land higher than you expect once you add the families. Count the buttons first, then look at which shipping tier that total falls in, and only then decide whether to round up.

If you are running a table to raise money: the printed rate ladder makes your margin arithmetic simple, because your cost per button is the same on the first one and the two hundredth. Set your table price once and it holds for the whole run.

If you are a grandparent ordering a few for one kid: a small order is a normal order here. Nothing about it changes except the count. Go with the 3 inch if you want the photo to carry across a field.

Questions that come up

Noyack does not seem to have its own ZIP code. What do I put in the checkout address fields? Enter your full street address the way your existing mail is addressed, including the town and state lines. The order is keyed to the street address. Do not invent a postal code and do not swap in a different hamlet's name.

Can one Noyack order mix all five button sizes? Yes. Each size is charged at its own rate, worked out from its own count, and the shipping tier is worked out on the total number of buttons across the whole order, not per size.

Our Noyack team needs 40 of the 3 inch buttons. What is the total? $99.60 for the buttons at $2.49 each, plus $9.99 flat shipping, so $109.59 before tax.

If a Noyack order goes over 100 buttons, does anything besides shipping change?

No. The per button price is unchanged. The bands, and which one your count lands in

$9.99 up to $14.99 once the order passes 100 buttons.

Do you cover the places around Noyack, like North Sea, Shelter Island, Northwest Harbor, Southold and Cutchogue? Yes, all of those are covered, which is useful when a roster pulls families from more than one of them. Each order still goes to a single delivery address.