diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d3ea654..345d7dc 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,4 +8,8 @@ coverage.xml
 
 # Ignore Scratch files
 scratch/*
-!/scratch/README.md
\ No newline at end of file
+!/scratch/README.md
+
+# Ignore virtualenv
+.venv
+venv
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/akauntingpy/api.py b/akauntingpy/api.py
index 78922f4..9d4d27f 100644
--- a/akauntingpy/api.py
+++ b/akauntingpy/api.py
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
+from importlib.metadata import version, PackageNotFoundError
 import requests
 import json
 from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
-from akauntingpy import exceptions, __version__
 from akauntingpy.helpers import *
+from akauntingpy import exceptions
 
+from setuptools_scm import get_version
+
+__version__ = get_version(root='..', relative_to=__file__)
 
 class Client(object):
     """
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8f91654..bbeeaff 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-requests >= 2.21.0
-pytest
\ No newline at end of file
+requests >= 2.27.0
+pytest >= 7.1.2
+pytest-cov >= 3.0.0