Die-cut stickers for a Staten Island shopfront

A 2 by 3 inch sticker is 6 square inches, and at 100 pieces the rate is 26 cents a square inch, so each one comes to $1.56 and the hundred comes to $156.00. That sum is the entire pricing model in one line. There is no artwork fee folded into it, no per colour charge, no separate cutting charge. You pick a width and a height, multiply them, look up the rate that matches how many you are buying, and multiply again. If the same 2 by 3 inch decal is ordered 250 at a time, the rate falls to 24 cents, which makes each piece $1.44 and the run of 250 exactly $360.00. The shape does not change the number. A circle, a rounded rectangle, a logo cut tight around its own outline: all price off the same width times height box.

Most of what gets ordered for a small retail frontage is a handful of designs repeated. A small panel by the handle, a card acceptance mark, a name and an address for the glass above eye level, maybe a mark for the far edge of the door where people push. Those are the orders this page is written for.

Reading the rate table without doing the whole calculation twice

The rate per square inch is 35 cents from 1 to 24 pieces, 30 cents from 25 to 49, 28 cents from 50 to 99, 26 cents from 100 to 249, 24 cents from 250 to 499, and 22 cents at 500. The useful consequence is that crossing from one band into the next can be worth more than the extra pieces cost you. Going from 99 pieces to 100 moves every piece in the order from 28 cents to 26 cents, not just the hundredth one. The rate applies to the whole quantity, so it is worth checking how close you are to the top of your band.

Why a street address carries the whole order

We hold no ZIP code on file for Staten Island. That is not a gap we work around with a guess, and we would rather say so plainly than substitute a nearby code and hope the order lands. Orders go by street address instead. Write the number, the street, the unit or suite if there is one, and the state, exactly as your mail already arrives. If your shop takes deliveries at a rear entrance, or under a business name that differs from the name on your payment, put that in the address block too. The address you type is the address that gets used.

Where the work is done, and how far it sits from you

Everything is printed and cut at one storefront at 205 East Main Street in

Huntington, New York. The straight line distance from that counter to Richmond County is 44.5 miles to the south west. Straight line is the honest way to state it, because it is a fixed fact about two points and nothing else. Free local pickup is available at that counter, and orders ship within the United States otherwise.

Size first, quantity second

The order most people regret is the one where the quantity was decided before the size. Square inches drive the price, and a decal that grows from 2 by 3 to 3 by 4 goes from 6 square inches to 12, which doubles the cost of every single piece no matter what band you are in. If you are working to a number, start with the glass. Measure the clear panel you are sticking to, decide how much of it the decal should occupy, and only then decide how many you want. A design read from the sidewalk needs to be larger than one read by someone already at the door, and those two are often ordered as two sizes rather than one compromise.

The artwork, in practical terms

A die cut follows a line, so the line has to exist. If your mark has a clean outer edge, we cut to it. If it does not, or if the outline would leave a fragile spur or a hairline bridge, we will square it off or add a small margin around the artwork and tell you that is what happened. Fine detail inside the design is a separate question from the cut path. Small text near the cut edge is the thing worth checking on your side, because a millimetre of drift is invisible in the middle of a decal and obvious when it clips a letter.

What the minimum actually is

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. This is not a price floor and not a minimum charge. Nobody rounds a small order up to $10. A small number of large decals often clears the merchandise figure on its own, and a larger number of small ones clears the piece count, so most real orders satisfy it without anyone thinking about it.

For the owner doing this personally

If you are the person who opens the door in the morning and also the person placing this order, work from the one sum at the top of this page. Pick your size, find your band, multiply. You do not need a quote to know what a run of window decals costs.

For someone fitting out a second counter

If you are matching signage you already have, send the existing artwork rather than a photograph of the existing decal. Rebuilding a mark from a photo introduces differences you will see the moment the two are side by side.

For a designer ordering on a client's behalf

Put the client's street address in the shipping block and your own details on the order, and say in the notes which is which. Since there is no ZIP on file for this part of Richmond County, an address typed from memory is the one thing most likely to cause a problem.

For anyone replacing a single panel

You are allowed to order one design at one size and nothing else. Reordering the same file later does not put you back at the start of anything.

Questions people ask

How should I address a Staten Island order when you have no ZIP code on file? Use the full street address as your mail already reads: number, street, unit, and state. The address you enter is the address used on the parcel.

Does moving a Staten Island order from 100 to 250 pieces of the same 2 by 3 inch decal really change the price per piece? Yes. At 100 the rate is 26 cents a square inch, so each 6 square inch piece is $1.56 and 100 is $156.00. At 250 the rate is 24 cents, so each piece is $1.44 and 250 is $360.00.

Can I collect a Staten Island order at the Huntington counter instead of having it sent? Yes. Free local pickup is offered at 205 East Main Street, and it is the same finished order either way.

My Staten Island shop only needs a few large door decals. Does that meet the minimum? An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, so a small number of large pieces frequently qualifies on the merchandise figure alone.

Brooklyn is the nearest place you also cover, 11.5 miles from Staten Island. Does that affect how my order is handled? No. Both are made on the same equipment at the single Huntington storefront, and the pricing table is identical for each.