diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5df3acb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+.sw?
+.*.sw?
+__pycache__/
+/dist
+/*.egg-info/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 76e9a1f..4257bdd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ Installation
 [Download](https://github.com/bsgworld/bsg-python/archive/master.zip) repository, decompress, install with
 `setup.py install`
 
+Alternatively, use pip:
+
+    pip install git+https://github.com/bsgworld/bsg-python.git
+
+or [Poetry](https://python-poetry.org/) to add a requirement:
+
+    poetry add git+https://github.com/bsgworld/bsg-python.git
+
+
 Usage
 -----
 See [BSG REST API Documentation](https://bsg.world/developers/rest-api/) for complete list of API clients, error codes, result codes etc.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9130854
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+  "setuptools",
+  "requests",
+  ]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..657c93d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[metadata]
+version = attr: bsg_restapi.__version__
+
+[options]
+install_requires =
+	requests
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 140b776..ef107e4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-from distutils.core import setup
-from bsg_restapi import __version__
+from setuptools import setup
 
 setup(
     name='bsg-restapi',
-    version=__version__,
     packages=['bsg_restapi'],
     url='https://github.com/bsgworld/bsg-python',
     license='BSD 2-Clause License',