Small Business Signage: 9 to 18 ft Flags at the Door

What Does the Flag Kit Include?

Flag + Pole is the opening row. You get the cloth, a fiberglass and aluminum pole, a ground stake and a standard soft carry bag. Flag Only is a replacement cloth for a pole you already own. It ships without the pole, the spike or the bag. A first order is the kit.

The 4 ounce polyester flag uses full-color dye sublimation, with a curved pole top and angled lower edge.

The graphic the page opens on is Single Sided Print Thru. The print comes through the cloth, so the back is that same design rather than a blank. If both directions have to read as a designed face, double sided is a separate graphic choice on the same page. It is not the $224.69 the page loads with. Read the graphic line on the proof before you treat the back as a second layout.

AI image to print makes your own image print ready for $14.99 once per item. A free proof comes with every order before anything prints. "Design it for me" is $29.99 with two revisions, and free when the item is $499 or more. Every kit in the $203.29 to $267.49 range sits under that line, so design help on a flag is $29.99. The free-design tier is for a larger item, not for this pole.

Production starts after proof approval. The shop does not install the flag or place the stake, so choose the base for the actual surface before ordering.

Which Height Fits the Door?

There is no custom height. Choose among 9, 10.5, 14 and 18 ft after measuring the sightline and clearance. The page opens on 14 feet at $224.69.

• 9 ft, at $203.29, is the short end of the range.
• 10.5 ft is the size between 9 ft and 14 ft.
• 14 ft, at $224.69, is the kit the page opens on.
• 18 ft, at $267.49, is the tall end of the range.

Measure the sightline and the clearance, including the ceiling when the flag is indoors, before you pick. The cloth is narrow. One name and one offer, or the word open. Keep that one line in the upper part of the flag. The bottom of the cloth sits nearer the planter, the car hood and the people walking past.

What Should Bright Hollow Bakery Order?

In this example, Bright Hollow Bakery is a sample bakery. The shop is on a street with a parking row in front and a concrete walk at the door. Weekday customers already know the door. The flag is for the person who just parked and is looking for which storefront is the bakery.

They pick the 14 ft default at $224.69 after confirming it fits the site.

The walk is concrete, so the included ground stake is the wrong base for the weekday spot. They choose a cross base on the same page, the hardware described for concrete, tile and indoor floors. The stake stays in the kit for the grass strip at the Saturday market, where the same flag moves. A cross base plus the ground stake is the pair for one flag that moves between a lawn and a hard floor. The base they select has its own price, added before they pay.

The cloth says "Bright Hollow" and "open." The pastry list stays on a board inside.

They do not order raised letters for the facade. Raised letters are a building sign. Their order is a flag in a bag. They also do not order a chalkboard. A chalkboard is a thing they write on themselves. If they want a printed poster on the walk as well, that is a Standard Signicade at $267.49, a different page, with one 24 by 36 inch vinyl graphic. The flag and the poster can both exist. They are not the same sign.

Which Base Fits the Sidewalk?

The kit includes a ground stake. The option card calls it an aluminum spike for grass and soft ground. It is the wrong base for a sidewalk, a parking lot or a trade show floor.

On a hard surface the cross base is the aluminum cross the card describes for concrete, tile and indoor floors. The square base is a 22 pound steel plate, described as the steadiest stand for hard surfaces. The water-bag choice is the cross base with a fillable ring, described for wind on a hard surface. None of those replace the decision about where you are willing to leave the flag. The page does not publish a wind speed. You pick the base for the spot, and you bring the flag in when you are done with it for the day.

The soft bag is included. A hard case is an upgrade only if the pole travels often.

The $224.69 figure is the 14 foot flag and pole with the ground stake, which is what loads. Changing the base changes the total. Look at the total before you pay.

What Should the Flag Not Try to Be?

A small shop accumulates signs. Most of them are a different product, and ordering them all "for growth" just fills the sidewalk.

• A vinyl banner is the wide sentence, 6 by 3 feet at $133.00, with hems and grommets. Hang it on the rail or the wall. It does not stand on a pole.
• A window cling is the graphic on the glass, 24 by 36 inches at $74.89, static cling, no adhesive. It is not a flag, and it is not a building letter.
• A yard sign is the lawn, 24 by 18 inches at $53.49, plus $3.00 for a wire stake. Useful at the curb of a lot. Useless as the tall mark over the cars.
• A Standard Signicade is the 19 pound sidewalk poster, $267.49. One face, 24 by 36 inches, peel-and-stick vinyl applied directly onto the frame. The flag is the tall sign. The Signicade is the poster on the walk.
• A teardrop, a rectangle flag or a convex flag is a different silhouette, each with its own prices. The angled feather is the flag in this order. The convex flag's range starts lower.

None of these is a permit, a landlord approval or an install crew. The order ships to the shop. Where it is allowed to stand is the shop's question, answered before the proof, not after the box arrives.

What Do People Get Wrong on a First Flag?

• An 18 foot pole chosen before the clearance at the door is measured.
• A 9 foot pole chosen before the sightline is measured.
• A ground stake on concrete, because the stake was in the box. The stake is for grass. The cross base is for the sidewalk.
• A paragraph on a two-foot-wide cloth. One name, one offer.
• Flag Only on a first order. The pole is not in that shipment.
• Treating the print-through back as a designed second side. It is the same print from behind. Double sided is the other graphic choice.
• Expecting the shop to mount letters on the building. Raised letters are a different product.

How Fast Does the Flag Ship?

Next business day production starts after the free proof included with every order is approved. The flat $10 ship charge comes after that window. A file uploaded tonight is not a flag at the door in the morning. Put the opening date in the order notes if the shop has to have the pole by a day that cannot move.

Price the height on the feather flag page. The 14 foot kit is the one that loads. The base you select is the one the sidewalk actually is.