Custom Pin-Back Buttons for West Hempstead

Settle one question before you think about sizes or artwork: is somebody going to collect the buttons in person, or do you want the box shipped? That is the only real fork in the road on an order like this. Pickup costs nothing. Shipping is a flat charge set by the number of buttons on the order and by nothing else. Both ladders are published before you order, so the choice is simply whether a trip suits you better than one extra line on the invoice. Plenty of people ordering from West Hempstead make the call based on whether anyone on the team was already heading in this direction anyway.

The distance, stated once so you can weigh it

You are 18.4 miles from us, straight line, to the south west. That is the honest form of the number. A straight line does not know about routes or traffic, and no other version of the figure would mean anything. Set it against a flat shipping charge that starts at $9.99 and most people know their answer immediately.

We cover the pockets around you on exactly the same terms, and several of them sit close enough that one person collecting can serve more than one group at once: Garden City South at 1.2 miles, Franklin Square at 1.4, Lakeview at 1.4, Malverne at 1.8 and South Hempstead at 1.9. Those are distances from West Hempstead, not from us.

No ZIP of its own, so the street address carries the order

There is no ZIP code on file for this place. That is not an error on our side and it does not block anything. What it does mean is that the street line has to do all the work, so write it out in full and read it back once before you submit: house or building number, street, unit or apartment, and the floor if the building has more than one way in. Campaign and canvassing orders very often go to a home rather than an office, which is exactly the situation where a missing unit number causes trouble. If a checkout field insists on a postal code and will not take a blank, put in the one that already appears on your own mail. The street line is what gets read.

Five sizes, each with its own rate ladder

There are five round sizes and nothing else. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. The per button rate steps down at 100, 250 and 500 of a single size. 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. Nobody needs to inflate an order to unlock a better rate, because there is no better rate. There is a 1 inch at $1.49 and a 1.25 inch at $1.69 as well, both of them smaller than the sizes above.

Choose the size by how much has to fit on the face. The 1.5 inch suits a lapel and one short line. The 2.25 inch is the one most people picture when they picture a button, and it holds a name plus a slogan comfortably. The 3 inch gives you room for a name, a line underneath it and a date, or for artwork that needs to read from across a sidewalk.

One order, costed from end to end

Say you want 100 of the 3 inch. At $1.59 each, the 100 to 249 rate for that size, that is $159.00 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $9.99, so the order comes to $168.99 before tax. If somebody collects instead, the $9.99 comes off and you are at $159.00 before tax. No part of that figure changes based on how far the box would have travelled.

Where the shipping charge steps up

The flat tiers go by total buttons on the order: $9.99 up to 100, $14.99 up to 250, $19.99 up to 500, and $24.99 up to 1000. Worth knowing, because 100 sits exactly on the ceiling of the first tier. A 101 button order pays $14.99, five dollars more than a 100 button order, for one additional button.

If you find yourself at 104 or 110, you have two sensible moves. Trim back to 100 and stay in the first tier, or accept the $14.99 and understand that the tier now runs all the way to 250. The extra buttons in between still cost the same each, so there is nothing clever hiding in the middle of that range. It is only the shipping line that has changed.

Artwork for a canvassing set

Everything is printed full colour from artwork you upload. Buttons are round, so design round: the face curves over the edge, and anything critical placed too close to the outside rim will disappear around the side. Keep names, dates and any small text well inside the circle. If you are running more than one design, a candidate button and a volunteer button for instance, upload each design separately and tell us how many of each you want. They can all sit on the same order, and the shipping tier counts the buttons together rather than counting the designs.

Four ways these orders tend to get put together

If you are coordinating volunteers, the usual shape is one design at 2.25 inch, one quantity, one address, and one person nominated to hand them out. Keeping it to a single order keeps it to a single shipping charge.

If you are ordering to a house rather than a headquarters, the unit or apartment number is the detail to check hardest, since the street line is doing everything here. Put your own name on the order rather than a committee name if that is what the mailbox says.

If several people are chipping in, collect the money first and place one order to one address. Designs at the same size pool for the discount and different sizes never do, so a mixed order does not combine its way into a band.

If you want a mix of sizes, order them together. A run of 60 at 2.25 inch and 40 at 3 inch is 100 buttons total, which keeps you in the $9.99 tier even though the two lines are priced separately at $1.99 and $2.49.

Questions people ask when ordering from here

There is no ZIP code listed for West Hempstead. What do I put on the order? Give us the full street address and let that carry the delivery. If the form will not accept an empty postal code box, use the code that appears on your own mail. The street line is what matters.

Does a West Hempstead campaign team pay less per button for ordering several hundred? No. Up to 99 of a size the rate is the one listed, and at 100 of that size it comes down 20 percent. A team ordering 400 pays $1.49 on a 2.25 inch button where a team ordering 40 pays $1.99. Discounts are worked out per size, and the first one lands at 100 of that size.

Our West Hempstead order came to 104 buttons and the shipping went up. Why? Because the first tier ends at 100. At 101 and above you move into the $14.99 tier, which then runs to 250. Dropping back to 100 returns you to $9.99.

Can a volunteer collect a West Hempstead order in person instead of paying for shipping? Yes. Pickup is free and removes the shipping line from the order entirely. It does not have to be the person who placed the order, so long as they can say whose order they are collecting.

We are splitting a canvassing run between West Hempstead and Franklin Square. Should that be one order or two? One order to one address is cheaper, because the tier counts total buttons and you pay a single shipping charge instead of two. Send it to whichever of the two addresses is easier to distribute from. Two separate orders only make sense if the two batches genuinely cannot be handed over between the groups.

If you are unsure which size fits your design, or whether your quantity is sitting awkwardly against a tier boundary, say so when you order and we will tell you plainly what the numbers look like either way.