diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..730ac71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+This Django app is brought to you by Balanced.
+Marshall Jones (mjallday)
+
+And a little help from the community
+Timothy John Watts (readevalprint)
+
diff --git a/django_balanced/management/commands/sync.py b/django_balanced/management/commands/sync.py
index 0b4f183..0488d0a 100644
--- a/django_balanced/management/commands/sync.py
+++ b/django_balanced/management/commands/sync.py
@@ -12,6 +12,5 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
            'local system'
 
     def handle(self, *args, **options):
-        balanced.configure(settings.BALANCED['API_KEY'])
         BankAccount.sync()
         Credit.sync()
diff --git a/django_balanced/middleware.py b/django_balanced/middleware.py
deleted file mode 100644
index eac0932..0000000
--- a/django_balanced/middleware.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
-import balanced
-from django.conf import settings
-
-
-class BalancedMiddleware(object):
-
-    def process_request(*_):
-        balanced.configure(settings.BALANCED['API_KEY'])
diff --git a/django_balanced/settings.py b/django_balanced/settings.py
index 290ae47..9985455 100644
--- a/django_balanced/settings.py
+++ b/django_balanced/settings.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 from django.conf import settings
 
+import balanced
+
 
 LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -37,3 +39,5 @@
 
 if not BALANCED.get('API_KEY'):
     LOGGER.error('You must set the BALANCED_API_KEY environment variable.')
+else:
+    balanced.configure(BALANCED['API_KEY'])