diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fe52685f7..6ba24f4a9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ decorator>=3.4.0
 defusedxml>=0.4.1		# for TastyPie when ussing xml; not a declared dependency
 Django>=1.8.16,<1.9
 django-bootstrap3>=5.1.1,<7.0.0 # django-bootstrap 7.0 requires django 1.8
+django-formtools>=1.0		# instead of django.contrib.formtools in 1.8
 django-markup>=1.1
 django-tastypie>=0.13.1
 django-widget-tweaks>=1.3