Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Wantagh

Bellmore sits 1.0 miles off, Seaford 1.2 miles, Merrick 2.1, North Bellmore 2.2 and

Massapequa 2.3, which puts all five inside a ring you could draw with a short piece of string. Wantagh sits in the middle of that ring. For a club or society whose membership list is spread across those names, that closeness is the whole practical story: one order of pins covers people who would each give a different answer if you asked them where they were from. We print full colour pin-back buttons in five round sizes from artwork you upload, and this page covers the few things a club organiser ordering for that kind of group will actually want settled before they start.

The address line has to stand on its own

There is no ZIP code on file here for Wantagh. That is not a blank for you to fill in with a guess, and it is not something to work around by borrowing a neighbour's number so a form stops complaining. Orders are matched on the street address as written: house number, street name, town, state. Put down the line exactly as it appears on your own mail and the order goes on that.

This is worth flagging for club work in particular, because club orders tend to get typed in by whichever member volunteered, working from a note that somebody else wrote on somebody else's behalf. A half-remembered address that would have been rescued by a postal code lookup does not get rescued here. If the note in front of you is missing a house number or an apartment, chase it down before the order goes in rather than after. Complete street line, correct town, correct state, and there is nothing else to think about.

Five sizes, and what a hundred of one does

We make 1 inch, 1.25 inch, 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and 3 inch round buttons 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

100, 250 and 500 of a single size are the three numbers worth knowing. They are the same for ten buttons and the same for a thousand. A bigger total does not help on its own. It is a bigger count of one size that moves a rate, which is why mixing sizes to reach a number does nothing. Whatever your club needs is exactly what you should order.

Choosing between the five is a design question rather than a budget one. The 1.5 inch is the usual pick for a plain member or officer pin worn on a lapel, where the design is an emblem and maybe one word. The 2.25 inch is the general purpose size and the one most people reach for when the design carries a name, a role and a year. The 3 inch is worth it when the artwork has lettering running around the rim, or a crest with fine internal detail that gets muddy if you shrink it.

What a real order adds up to

Here is one worked all the way through. A club orders 101 of the 1.5 inch button. At $1.51 each, the rate for 100 to 249 of a single size, that is $152.51 in buttons. Shipping is a flat charge based on how many buttons are on the order in total, and an order that size falls in the $14.99 tier, so the order comes to $167.50 before tax.

The shipping tiers, counted on total buttons:

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

Look at what that one extra button did. At 100 the order sits in the $9.99 tier. At 101 it crosses into $14.99. Ordering 100 instead of 101 would save $5.00 on postage, while the price of every button on the order stays exactly where it was. The buttons did not get cheaper and they did not get dearer. Only the postage line moved.

Counting members before you count buttons

The boundaries to be aware of are 100, 250, 500 and 1000, and the number that matters is the total on the order, not the total of any one size. That is the only reason to think about your count at all. A club that lands on 103 because three people said yes late is paying a different postage line than a club that lands on 99, even though both are paying the same for each button they receive.

So do the headcount first. Decide how many spares you genuinely want sitting in the box for people who join later, then see where that puts you against the nearest boundary. If you are two or three over a line, you are choosing between a few more buttons and a lower postage charge, and either choice is defensible. Just make it deliberately instead of finding out at checkout.

Artwork for a club emblem

Everything is printed full colour from the file you upload, so whatever your society already uses as its mark can go straight on. The one thing to keep in mind is the shape of the object. A pin-back button is a curved face with the printed sheet wrapping around the rim, so the outermost band of your artwork turns away from anyone looking at it head on. Keep lettering, the outline of a crest and anything else you need read clearly inside the middle of the circle rather than pressed up against the edge. If your emblem was drawn for a flat letterhead, nudge it inward before you upload.

Background colour is the other thing worth a moment. A design that sits on white will read as a white disc. If your club colours are the point, fill the whole circle.

The distance, plainly

Wantagh is 16.3 miles south of the shop in a straight line. That is a map measurement and not a description of any road. It is mostly useful for deciding whether you want the order shipped or whether somebody is going to collect it in person, since an order picked up does not carry a shipping tier at all.

Four kinds of orders we see

The club secretary buying officer pins. Usually a small run, usually 1.5 inch, usually the same emblem with a different word under it for each role. Nothing stops you putting several different designs on one order, and the shipping tier still counts the buttons all together.

The member running a sign up table. This is the case for ordering to a boundary rather than past it, because the count is a guess and the guess is going to be wrong in one direction or the other. Pick the number you can live with and stop.

The organiser of an annual dinner. Year on the pin means the artwork changes every time and last year's file is the head start. Keep the previous file, change the date, leave everything else alone.

The person who keeps the supply box. You are reordering something that already exists, so the job is finding the original artwork rather than making new artwork. Before you place it, check whether the club has quietly changed its colours since the last run.

Questions people ask

Your form wants a ZIP and there is no ZIP listed for Wantagh. What do I enter? Enter your full street address, town and state. The order is matched on the street line, so a complete address is all that is needed. Do not substitute a number from somewhere else.

Our club meets in Wantagh but members live in Merrick and Massapequa. Does that affect the order? No. The order ships to one address, and which one you use is up to you. Where individual members live has no bearing on the price of the buttons or on the shipping tier.

We need 101 pins for a Wantagh club. Is ordering 100 genuinely better? Buy 100 of a size and all 100 are 20 percent cheaper each. The difference is postage: 100 sits in the $9.99 tier and 101 sits in the $14.99 tier, a $5.00 gap. Whether that spare button is worth five dollars is your call.

Can a Wantagh club put all five sizes on a single order? Yes. Each size is charged at its own rate, on its own count, $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 and $2.49, and the shipping tier is worked out from the combined number of buttons across the whole order.

Does a Wantagh address cost more to ship to than a Bellmore or Seaford one? No. Shipping is the flat tier based on how many buttons are on the order. The town on the address does not change it.