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-hydroMT-sfincs: sfincs plugin for hydroMT
-###########################################
+hydroMT-sfincs: SFINCS plugin for hydroMT
+#########################################
 
-FIXME add badges with correct links
+.. image:: https://codecov.io/gh/Deltares/hydromt_sfincs/branch/main/graph/badge.svg
+    :target: https://codecov.io/gh/Deltares/hydromt_sfincs
 
-.. note::
+.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg
+    :target: https://deltares.github.io/hydromt_sfincs/latest
+    :alt: Latest developers docs
 
-  This minimal branch from the hydromt_sfincs plugin can be used as a **template** to easily 
-  implement new plugins for hydroMT. To implement a new model do:
-  
-  - replace all instances of `plugin` with the model name
-  - edit license (default GPLv3)
-  - edit model class (plugin.py) to be adapted for the new model
-  - check and fix git installation (including pyproject.toml) including entry point
-  - test "hydromt --models"
-  - edit installation guide 
-  - edit .github actions and envs/hydromt-plugin.yml environment
-  - edit template documentation
+.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-stable-brightgreen.svg
+    :target: https://deltares.github.io/hydromt_sfincs/stable
+    :alt: Stable docs last release
+
+.. image:: https://pypip.in/v/hydromt_sfincs/badge.png
+    :target: https://pypi.org/project/hydromt_sfincs/
+    :alt: Latest PyPI version
+
+.. image:: https://mybinder.org/badge_logo.svg
+    :target: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/Deltares/hydromt_sfincs/main?urlpath=lab/tree/examples
 
 
 hydroMT_ is a python package, developed by Deltares, to build and analysis hydro models.
 It provides a generic model api with attributes to access the model schematization,
 (dynamic) forcing data, results and states. This plugin provides an implementation 
-for the sfincs model.
+for the SFINCS_ model.
 
 
 .. _hydromt: https://deltares.github.io/hydromt
+.. _SFINCS: https://sfincs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
 
 
 Installation
 ------------
 
-FIXME installation guide
+hydroMT-sfincs is availble from pypi and we are working on adding a release from conda-forge (ongoing).
+
+To install hydromt_sfincs using pip do:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  pip install hydromt_sfincs
+
+We recommend installing a hydromt-sfincs environment including the hydromt_sfincs package
+based on the environment.yml file. This environment will install all package dependencies 
+including the core of hydroMT_.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  conda env create -f binder/environment.yml
+  conda activate hydromt-sfincs
+  pip install hydromt_sfincs
 
 Documentation
 -------------
 
-Learn more about hydroMT in its `online documentation <https://deltares.github.io/hydromt_sfincs/>`_
+Learn more about the hydroMT_sfincs plugin in its `online documentation <https://deltares.github.io/hydromt_sfincs/>`_
 
 Contributing
 ------------