Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Uniondale, New York

An event organiser standing over a volunteer roster, a staff list and a floor plan is usually trying to solve one small problem: how does anyone at the door tell a volunteer from a vendor from a guest. Badges are the answer, and pin-back buttons are the version of a badge that does not need a lanyard, a printer at the check-in table, or a plastic sleeve that cracks in a tote bag. You upload the artwork, you pick a size, you pick a count, and you hand them out. That is the order most often placed for events in Uniondale, and it is the order this page is written around.

The address matters more than the ZIP here

Most towns hand you a ZIP code and the rest of the order fills itself in. This one does not. We hold no ZIP code on file for Uniondale, and we are not going to guess one, because a guessed ZIP is the kind of small wrong detail that quietly sends a carton somewhere it was never meant to go.

The practical effect is simple. Your order travels on the street address you type in, not on a postal code we looked up for you. Put the full street line in exactly as your venue writes it, including the suite, unit, building or gate number if there is one. If the delivery point is a school, a field house, a hall, a park office or a community building, name it on the address line rather than assuming the street number alone will find it. If your carrier form asks for a ZIP, use whatever the venue itself uses on its own mail. We work from what you give us.

This is worth two extra minutes at the keyboard. An event badge order is useless if it arrives at the wrong door, and it is the one part of the process only you can get right.

Five sizes, and what each one is really for

There are five round pin-back buttons and nothing else: 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and

The 3 inch.

The 1.5 inch is the discreet one. It reads as a marker rather than a sign. It suits a staff badge where the wearer is already identifiable by a shirt or a position, and where you want the button to say one word: STAFF, CREW, HOST.

The 2.25 inch is the workhorse for events, and it is the size in the worked example below. It holds a word and a role, or a logo and a word, at a size somebody can read from a few feet back without leaning in. If you are unsure, this is the one to default to.

The 3 inch is for the badge that has to be read across a room, or that has to carry a logo with real detail in it, or that has to mark out a small group inside a large crowd. Committee chairs, medical, security, headliners.

All five print in full colour from the artwork you upload. Nothing about the artwork changes between sizes except how much room it has.

What the pricing actually does

The discount is worked out per size and applied automatically. Every button of one size is charged at the same rate as every other, and which rate that is depends on how many of that size the order holds.

• 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

So the arithmetic is arithmetic. 400 of the 2.25 inch button at $1.49 each, the band rate once 250 of one size are on the order, is $596.00 in buttons. Shipping on an order that size is a flat $19.99, which brings the order to $615.99 before tax. Nothing here is negotiated: the band your count lands in sets the rate.

The per button rate is a per size question and the shipping tier is a whole order question.

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

Because the button price never moves, the tier boundary is the only place where a single extra button costs you anything unusual. A 400 button order sits comfortably inside the 500 tier, with room above it. If your roster grows after you have ordered, you can carry those additions inside the same tier without the shipping number changing at all. If you are sitting at 505, you have crossed into the next tier for the sake of five buttons, and it is worth knowing that before you click rather than after.

Where you are, in a straight line

Uniondale is 15.3 miles south west of the shop, measured straight line, not by road. That figure is there so you can judge the geography for yourself rather than trust a number somebody invented for a map.

We cover the surrounding towns on the same terms. East Meadow is 1.7 miles away, Garden City is 2.4, North Merrick is 2.5, Roosevelt is 2.6 and Carle Place is 2.6. If your committee is scattered across that stretch of Nassau County, nobody is getting a different price or a different product based on which of those lines they sit on. It is one order, one artwork file, one printed rate ladder.

Local pickup is available if collecting the order yourself suits the way your event is being run. Shipping to the venue is the other option, and for most organisers it is the simpler one.

Four people who place this order

The event chair. You are buying certainty more than you are buying buttons. Order the 2.25 inch in one design for everyone working the event, and use a second colour of shirt or a second design for leadership if you need a visible split. One file, one size, one count, done.

The volunteer coordinator. Your list is not final and it will not be final until the morning of. Order above your current confirmed count. The per button price does not punish you for the extra, and unclaimed badges cost you the button price and nothing else.

The vendor and sponsor liaison. Sponsors want to be seen. The 3 inch carries a logo with enough room that it still reads as the logo and not as a smudge of colour. Give sponsors the big one and keep your own crew on the smaller size, and the hierarchy is legible from the door.

The person who inherited this job. Someone handed you a folder and a deadline. Pick 2.25 inch, upload the artwork you already have, count your roster, add a margin, and put the venue's full street address in the shipping field. That is the whole decision tree.

Questions organisers ask

Our Uniondale venue has no ZIP code on file with you. Will the order still ship? Yes. The order ships on the street address you enter. Type the venue's full street line, including any unit, suite or building identifier, and use the postal code the venue itself uses on its own correspondence.

We are ordering 400 of the 2.25 inch for a Uniondale event. Can we see that number broken down? 400 at $1.49 each, the band rate once 250 of one size are on the order, is $596.00 in buttons. An order of that size ships at the flat $19.99 tier, which makes it $615.99 before tax.

If our Uniondale roster grows and we place a second order, does the price per button change? No. A second order is priced on its own count, so sixty now and sixty in the spring is two orders of sixty rather than one of a hundred and twenty. Only the flat shipping tier on each order responds to the number of buttons on that order.

Can a Uniondale organiser put more than one size on a single order? Yes. Mix 1 inch, 1.25 inch, 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and 3 inch freely. Each size is charged at its own ladder, climbed on its own count, and the shipping tier is set by the total number of buttons on the order, not by the number of sizes.

Our committee members are spread between Uniondale and the towns next to it. Does that change anything? No. East Meadow, Garden City, North Merrick, Roosevelt and Carle Place are all covered on the same terms, at the same published rate. Place one order, ship it to whichever single address works best for your check-in table, and distribute from there.