diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9f5cf72..a0b00ec 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+## v2.0.0
+### Breaking change
+
+The index method no longer accepts shards as a parameter.
+This change follows the implementation of a new settings method allowing you to pass any number of settings objects to build out the index.
+
+Where the index method is currently being used as follows
+```
+index name: 'index_name', shards: 1
+```
+
+This should now look as follows.
+```
+index name 'index_name'
+settings name: :number_of_shards, value: 1
+```
+
 ## v1.4.0
 * Resolve JSON query to work with ES6 by adding the request content type.
 * Make the mapping method more flexible to allow more than just type and index to be passed for the mapping parameters/options.
diff --git a/lib/elastic_search_framework/index.rb b/lib/elastic_search_framework/index.rb
index afaf4b1..3fa52b1 100644
--- a/lib/elastic_search_framework/index.rb
+++ b/lib/elastic_search_framework/index.rb
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 module ElasticSearchFramework
   module Index
-    def index(name:, shards: nil)
+    attr_accessor :index_settings
+
+    def index(name:)
       unless instance_variable_defined?(:@elastic_search_index_def)
-        instance_variable_set(:@elastic_search_index_def, {
-            name: "#{name}", shards: shards
-        })
+        instance_variable_set(:@elastic_search_index_def, name: "#{name}")
       else
-        raise ElasticSearchFramework::Exceptions::IndexError.new("[#{self.class}] - Duplicate index description. Name: #{name} | Shards: #{shards}.")
+        raise ElasticSearchFramework::Exceptions::IndexError.new("[#{self.class}] - Duplicate index description. Name: #{name}.")
       end
     end
 
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ def create
         ElasticSearchFramework.logger.debug { "[#{self.class}] - Index already exists."}
         return
       end
-
-      payload = create_payload(description: description, mappings: mappings)
+      payload = create_payload
 
       put(payload: payload)
     end
@@ -101,27 +100,28 @@ def delete
       is_valid_response?(response.code) || Integer(response.code) == 404
     end
 
-    def create_payload(description:, mappings:)
-      payload = {}
+    def settings(name:, type: nil, value:)
+      self.index_settings = {} if index_settings.nil?
+      index_settings[name] = if type
+                               { type => value }
+                             else
+                               value
+                             end
+    end
 
-      if description[:shards] != nil
-        payload[:settings] = {
-          number_of_shards: Integer(description[:shards])
-        }
-      end
+    def create_payload
+      payload = { }
+      payload[:settings] = index_settings unless index_settings.nil?
 
-      if mappings.keys.length > 0
+      unless mappings.keys.empty?
         payload[:mappings] = {}
 
         mappings.keys.each do |name|
-          payload[:mappings][name] = {
-              properties: {}
-          }
+          payload[:mappings][name] = { properties: {} }
           mappings[name].keys.each do |field|
             payload[:mappings][name][:properties][field] = mappings[name][field]
           end
         end
-
       end
 
       payload
diff --git a/lib/elastic_search_framework/version.rb b/lib/elastic_search_framework/version.rb
index d1af8bd..0528745 100644
--- a/lib/elastic_search_framework/version.rb
+++ b/lib/elastic_search_framework/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module ElasticSearchFramework
-  VERSION = '1.4.0'
+  VERSION = '2.0.0'
 end
diff --git a/spec/elastic_search_framework/index_spec.rb b/spec/elastic_search_framework/index_spec.rb
index c188a9d..a4679d2 100644
--- a/spec/elastic_search_framework/index_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/elastic_search_framework/index_spec.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
       expect(ExampleIndex.description[:name]).to eq 'example_index'
       expect(ExampleIndex.description[:id]).to eq :id
       expect(ExampleIndexWithId.description[:id]).to eq :number
-      expect(ExampleIndexWithShard.description[:shards]).to eq 1
     end
   end
 
@@ -16,7 +15,7 @@
       it 'raises an index error' do
         expect { ExampleIndex.index(name: 'test') }.to raise_error(
           ElasticSearchFramework::Exceptions::IndexError,
-          "[Class] - Duplicate index description. Name: test | Shards: ."
+          '[Class] - Duplicate index description. Name: test.'
         )
       end
     end
@@ -64,6 +63,37 @@
     end
   end
 
+  describe '#analysis' do
+    context 'when analysis is nil' do
+      before { ExampleIndex.delete if ExampleIndex.exists? }
+
+      it 'does not add analysis to the index' do
+        ExampleIndex.create
+        expect(ExampleIndexWithSettings.get.dig('example_index', 'settings', 'index', 'analysis')).to be_nil
+      end
+    end
+
+    context 'when analysis is not nil' do
+      before { ExampleIndexWithSettings.delete if ExampleIndexWithSettings.exists? }
+      let(:expected) do
+        {
+          'normalizer' => {
+            'custom_normalizer' => {
+              'filter' => ['lowercase'],
+              'type' => 'custom'
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      end
+
+      it 'adds analysis to the index' do
+        ExampleIndexWithSettings.create
+        expect(ExampleIndexWithSettings.get.dig('example_index', 'settings', 'index', 'number_of_shards')).to eq('1')
+        expect(ExampleIndexWithSettings.get.dig('example_index', 'settings', 'index', 'analysis')).to eq(expected)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
   describe '#valid?' do
     context 'for a valid index definition' do
       it 'should return true' do
diff --git a/spec/example_index.rb b/spec/example_index.rb
index f458e59..0c4fcb4 100644
--- a/spec/example_index.rb
+++ b/spec/example_index.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ class ExampleIndex
   index name: 'example_index'
 
   mapping name: 'default', field: :name, type: :keyword, index: true
-
 end
 
 class ExampleIndexWithId
@@ -15,16 +14,18 @@ class ExampleIndexWithId
   id :number
 
   mapping name: 'default', field: :name, type: :keyword, index: true
-
 end
 
-class ExampleIndexWithShard
+class ExampleIndexWithSettings
   extend ElasticSearchFramework::Index
 
-  index name: 'example_index', shards: 1
+  index name: 'example_index'
 
-  mapping name: 'default', field: :name, type: :keyword, index: true
+  normalizer_value = { custom_normalizer: { type: 'custom', char_filter: [], filter: ['lowercase'] } }
 
+  settings name: :number_of_shards, value: 1
+  settings name: :analysis, type: :normalizer, value: normalizer_value
+  mapping name: 'default', field: :name, type: :keyword, index: true
 end
 
 class InvalidExampleIndex