AcornShop is owned and operated by two women living in Portland, Oregon (USA).

We're passionate about helping small business owners succeed in the sometimes treacherous and often confusing world of online commerce.

Here are some of our guiding principles:

• We believe that software does not have to be all things to all people—and suffers when it tries to be.
• We believe in simplicity and that good design is as complex as it needs to be, and no more.
• We believe that beauty elevates the soul.
• We believe software is an integral part of our lives and that bad software, over time, makes people miserable and great software makes people happy.
• We believe that everyone wants to love their work, and the way to do it is create something meaningful, help people in ways that matter, and to have fun doing it.

The Team

Emma McCreary Design & Usability Emma owns Acorn Host, blogs at Tao of Prosperity, and was the principal of Red Acorn Design for many years. Emma is putting her 10 years of micro-biz design experience and advocacy to use fashioning a deceptively simple user interface and easily brandable templates.

Emily Dickinson Architecture & Development Emily is the owner of ClearCart, an e-commerce solution for larger companies. Emily is pouring her passion and creativity into developing the framework behind AcornShop, which she describes as her "opus"—the culmination of decades of programming experience.