Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Smithtown, New York

An order here is matched to its destination by the five digits in the ZIP field, not by the town name typed on the line above it, and that one detail trips people up more often in Smithtown than in almost any other place on our list. Six separate ZIP codes sit under the same town name: 11725, 11745, 11754, 11755, 11768 and 11779. Two customers can write the identical town on a form and still be sending a box to two quite different points. Fill in the ZIP carefully, check it against the address on your venue contract or your invitation proof, and the rest of the order takes care of itself.

Six ZIP codes, one name on the envelope

Most towns we cover resolve to one ZIP code, sometimes two. Six is unusual. The practical effect is that the town name alone is not enough information to route a box, so nothing in our system keys off it. When you type an address, the ZIP is the part doing the work.

This matters most when an order is not going to your own home. Favour boxes tend to be sent to a venue, a parent's house, a planner's office or a hall that someone else booked, and each of those may sit under a different one of the six codes. Copy the street, the ZIP and the recipient name from the same source, all at once, and the problem disappears.

If you are sending to a venue rather than a residence, put a contact name on the order. A box addressed only to a building name can sit at a desk with nobody willing to claim it.

Where the town sits relative to the shop

Smithtown lies 10.3 miles east of Huntington in a straight line. That is a map measurement, not a route and not a duration, but it is useful for one reason: it tells you this is a short-hop shipment inside Suffolk County rather than a cross-country one. Free local pickup is available if you would rather collect the box yourself instead of having it sent.

That is the only place on this page where distance comes up. It does not change the price of a button and it does not change the shipping tier, both of which are the same for every address we serve.

The five sizes and what each one costs

We make round pin-back buttons in five sizes and nothing else:

• The 1 inch $1.49 each
• The 1.25 inch $1.69 each
• The 1.5 inch $1.89 each
• The 2.25 inch $1.99 each
• The 3 inch $2.49 each

A larger count of one size cannot cost more per button than a smaller one. Ten and a thousand of one size are not the same rate any more: ten pays the listed rate, and a thousand of a single size is where a quote takes over from an automatic price. A discount arrives at 100, 250 and 500 of a single size, and it is applied by the count rather than on request. The button maths is simply the count multiplied by the size price.

Each size is printed in full colour from artwork you upload. The 1.5 inch reads as a small favour or a name badge accent. The 2.25 inch is the size most people picture when they think of a button, and the usual choice when the design has a date, two names and a bit of ornament on it. The 3 inch gives the most room for detail, so pick it if your artwork has small type, a monogram with fine lines or a photograph you want people to actually be able to see.

Shipping is a flat tier, and 250 sits right on a line

Shipping is a single flat charge based on 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

Here is the worked example we use most often. Two hundred and fifty of the 2.25 inch button at $1.49 each, 25 percent off because the count clears 250, is $372.50 in buttons. Flat shipping at that size is $14.99, so the order comes to $387.49 before tax.

Notice where 250 falls. It is the last quantity in the $14.99 band. Order one more button and the whole order moves into the $19.99 band, so that single extra piece effectively costs you its own price plus five dollars in shipping. The buttons themselves do not get cheaper or dearer, only the flat shipping charge steps up.

That is worth knowing before you round your count up. If you genuinely need the spares, cross the line and stop worrying, because the next band runs all the way to 500 and you may as well use the room. Just do it deliberately rather than by accident.

Neighbouring places on the same list

Several nearby places are covered on their own pages, with the same published rate and the same shipping tiers. Hauppauge is 2.2 miles away, Smithtown Pines 2.5 miles, Nesconset 2.6 miles, St. James 3.3 miles and Kings Park 3.3 miles, all straight line. If your venue is in one of those and the getting-ready house is in another, nothing about the order changes. It is one order, one shipping charge, one address.

Four people ordering the same buttons for different reasons

The planner. You are running several events and the buttons are one line on a long checklist. Your concern is not the design, it is making sure the box lands at the right building with a name on it. Order each event separately if they go to separate addresses, since shipping is per order and the tiers count total buttons, not events.

The couple doing their own favours. You have a monogram or a date graphic and you want it on something small that guests will actually take home. The 2.25 inch is the safe default. If your design leans on thin script, step up to the 3 inch and let the type breathe.

The shower host. Your count is smaller and probably under 100, which keeps you in the $9.99 shipping band. At that size the whole decision is really just which of the five sizes suits the artwork, since the per-button price is fixed either way.

The venue coordinator. You are ordering on behalf of a client and the artwork is coming from someone else. Get the final file before you place the order rather than after, and put your own name on the shipping address so the box is not refused by a front desk.

Questions that come up

Is my Smithtown venue in the same ZIP code as my house? Quite possibly not. With six codes in use under the one town name, a home address and a reception hall a few streets apart can fall under different ones. Take the ZIP straight off the venue contract rather than assuming it matches your own.

If I order two sizes for a Smithtown wedding, do I pay a different rate on the smaller batch? No. Each size has its own rate, on its own count, $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 or $2.49, and splitting the order across sizes does not raise or lower either of them. The shipping tier is based on the combined button count for the whole order.

Our Smithtown guest count went from 250 to 260. What does that change? The rate for a given size and count is fixed and public, so you pay that for each additional piece. The flat shipping charge moves from $14.99 up to $19.99, because the order has crossed out of the up-to-250 band into the up-to-500 band.

Can I collect the order myself instead of shipping it to Smithtown? Yes. Free local pickup is offered as an alternative to shipping, and choosing it removes the flat shipping charge from the order. The per-button price is unaffected either way.

I am planning three separate Smithtown events. Should they be one order or three? If all three boxes go to the same address, one order is simpler and you pay a single flat shipping charge on the combined count. If they go to three different addresses, place three orders, since each shipment carries its own tier.