Custom Pin-Back Buttons for South Hempstead, New York

Does an order still go through if the place you live has no ZIP code of its own? Yes, and it goes through exactly the way every other order does. The postal code is one field on a form, and it is not the field that decides where a box ends up. South Hempstead is one of those Nassau County places with no code of its own on our records, which means the building number, the street name and the town line are carrying the weight. Write the address the way your mail already reads it and the order behaves normally from there.

The address line is the one to get right

Because there is no separate code on file for the town, the written address is the authoritative part of an order. Put the house or building number first, then the street, then the town name as you would write it on an envelope. If you are ordering for a storefront and the unit has a suite or floor number, put it on the second address line instead of folding it into the street line, where it can be read as part of the street name itself. Nassau County does not need to appear anywhere. The county is useful for knowing where you sit on a map, not for routing a parcel. If your mail already comes in under a neighbouring postal code, use that code in the ZIP field. It will not fight with the town name and it will not change a single thing about the order.

Five sizes, and what each one costs

There are five buttons and nothing else. All five are round, all five are pin backed, and all five are printed in full colour from artwork you upload.

The 1.5 inch: $1.89 per button

The 2.25 inch: $1.99 per button 3 inch: $2.49 per button

Up to 99 of a size the rate is the one listed, and at 100 of that size it comes down 20 percent. They are the price at ten buttons and they are the price at a thousand buttons. Padding pays only at a boundary and only within one size, where 99 of a size costs more in total than 100 of it. If you know the per button price and the number you want, you already know the button portion of your total.

A worked order, from count to total

Say you want 75 of the 3 inch button. At $2.49 each that is $186.75 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order that size is $9.99, so the order comes to $196.74 before tax. Swap the size and only the per button figure changes. Change the count and only the multiplication changes. The shape of the math is the same every time, which makes it easy to price a job in your head before you sit down to place it.

Where the shipping figure steps up

Shipping is flat and it is set by the total number of buttons on the order. It is not set by size, and it is not set by how many separate designs you are running.

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 thing worth watching is the edge of a tier. An order of exactly 100 buttons ships at $9.99. An order of 101 buttons ships at $14.99, because it has crossed into the next band. So if you are sketching a count and you land at 104 or 110 without a firm reason for those extra few, it is worth asking whether 100 covers what you need. Discounts are worked out per size, and the first one lands at 100 of that size. Each size has four price bands: 1 to 99, 100 to 249, 250 to 499 and 500 to 999.

Artwork that still reads at button size

A button is a small circle, and artwork that looks correct on a screen can lose its point once it is that size. A few things help. Keep the important part of the design well inside the circle, because the outer edge of the printed area wraps around the curve of the shell and is not seen straight on. Give type room. A phrase that fits comfortably on the 3 inch will often be unreadable on the 1.5 inch, which is one reason people running a word heavy design pick the larger size. Favour strong contrast between the text and whatever sits behind it. A logo with thin strokes or fine detail usually wants the 2.25 inch or the 3 inch rather than the smallest one. If you are not sure, send the artwork and say which size you are picturing, and we will tell you what we see. There is also a 1 inch at $1.49 and a 1.25 inch at $1.69, which is where most large giveaway runs land.

Distance, and the places right next door

South Hempstead sits 18.2 miles south west of the shop in Huntington measured as a straight line, ignoring roads entirely. That number matters less than it sounds, because a parcel order does not care about the shape of the map and the address line is doing the real work. More useful is that the places pressed up against you are covered on exactly the same terms: Hempstead half a mile out, Lakeview at 1.5 miles, West Hempstead and Roosevelt each at 1.9 miles, and Rockville Centre at 2.0 miles. If your staff, your customers or your second location are spread across those, nothing about ordering shifts from one to the next. The listed figure is the 1 to 99 rate, and it improves at three points above that.

Who tends to order these

A small retailer in South Hempstead ordering loyalty pins: this is the most common version we see. One pin per purchase above a certain amount, or one pin per visit, with a new design each season so regulars can tell them apart. 50 is priced at the listed rate and 500 at 30 percent under the listed rate, which is the whole of the difference.

A counter business putting names on staff: the 1.5 inch is usually enough for a first name set in large type, and the 2.25 inch gives you room for a name plus a small logo. A size's own count picks its rate, not the order total.

A shop running a promotion: promo pins for a sidewalk sale, a new product, an anniversary or a collaboration with another business. The 3 inch carries a short message plus a graphic without crowding, which is why promotion runs skew toward that size.

A vendor working a market table: a bowl of pins on the corner of the table is a give-away with the shop name on it. Mixed designs are fine, and the shipping tier counts total buttons rather than total designs, so splitting a run across four graphics does not change the shipping line.

Common questions

My South Hempstead address has no ZIP code of its own, so what do I put in that field? Use the postal code your mail already comes in under. The order is routed on the street address and town name, and a neighbouring code in the ZIP field does not create a conflict.

Is the price per button lower if I order 500 instead of 75 for my South Hempstead shop? Yes, and the saving applies to the whole run of that size. 75 of the 3 inch is $2.49 each and 500 of it is $1.74 each, because 500 reaches the 500 to 999 band. Nothing about the rate changes until one size reaches 100. Compare the two: 75 of the 3 inch at $2.49 each, and 500 of it at $1.74 each in the 500 to 999 band. A growing count moves the rate band for that size first and the shipping tier second.

I want 100 of the 2.25 inch for a South Hempstead storefront. What is the shipping? $9.99, because 100 buttons is the top of the first tier. At 101 buttons the shipping becomes $14.99. If your count is sitting just above 100 and the exact number is flexible, that is the one place it is worth trimming.

What does 75 of the 3 inch size come to on a South Hempstead order? $186.75 for the buttons, plus $9.99 flat shipping, for $196.74 before tax.

My South Hempstead shop is closer to Hempstead, Lakeview and Rockville Centre than to anything else. Are those covered the same way? Yes. Hempstead, Lakeview, West Hempstead, Roosevelt and Rockville Centre are all covered, and the sizes, the per button prices and the shipping tiers are identical across them. An order going to one of those is placed the same way as an order going to your own address.