diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ebd86bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+include LICENSE
+include CHANGELOG.md
+include README.md
+include setup.cfg
+recursive-include quart_session *.py
+recursive-include quart_session *.md
+exclude .gitlab-ci.yml
+exclude examples
+exclude docs
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e6b7284..11b965a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Quart-Session
 
+![pyversions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/Quart-Session.svg) [![pypiversion](https://badge.fury.io/py/Quart-Session.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/Quart-Session/) ![PyPI license](https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/Quart-Session.svg)
+
 Quart-Session is an extension for Quart that adds support for
 server-side sessions to your application.
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index dee691a..0e06019 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Links
 """
 from setuptools import setup
 
+with open('README.md') as f:
+    long_description = f.read()
+
 
 INSTALL_REQUIRES = [
     "Quart>=0.10.0"
@@ -27,7 +30,8 @@ setup(
     author='Sander',
     author_email='sander@sanderf.nl',
     description='Adds server-side session support to your Quart application',
-    long_description=__doc__,
+    long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     packages=['quart_session'],
     zip_safe=False,
     include_package_data=True,