diff --git a/bench/app.py b/bench/app.py
index c5ba0142..9b4d5513 100644
--- a/bench/app.py
+++ b/bench/app.py
@@ -35,7 +35,12 @@ def new_app(app, bench='.'):
 
 def install_app(app, bench='.'):
 	logger.info('installing {}'.format(app))
-	exec_cmd("{pip} install -e {app}".format(pip=os.path.join(bench, 'env', 'bin', 'pip'), app=os.path.join(bench, 'apps', app)))
+	conf = get_config()
+	find_links = '--find-links={}'.format(conf.get('wheel_cache_dir')) if conf.get('wheel_cache_dir') else ''
+	exec_cmd("{pip} install {find_links} -e {app}".format(
+				pip=os.path.join(bench, 'env', 'bin', 'pip'),
+				app=os.path.join(bench, 'apps', app),
+				find_links=find_links))
 	add_to_appstxt(app, bench=bench)
 
 def pull_all_apps(bench='.'):
diff --git a/bench/cli.py b/bench/cli.py
index 7cf7de3f..538efcd6 100644
--- a/bench/cli.py
+++ b/bench/cli.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from .utils import set_nginx_port as _set_nginx_port
 from .utils import set_default_site as _set_default_site
 from .utils import (build_assets, patch_sites, exec_cmd, update_bench, get_frappe, setup_logging,
 		get_config, update_config, restart_supervisor_processes, put_config, default_config, update_requirements,
-		backup_all_sites, backup_site, get_sites)
+		backup_all_sites, backup_site, get_sites, prime_wheel_cache)
 from .app import get_app as _get_app
 from .app import new_app as _new_app
 from .app import pull_all_apps
@@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ def _backup_all_sites():
 	"backup all sites"
 	backup_all_sites(bench='.')
 
+@click.command('prime-wheel-cache')
+def _prime_wheel_cache():
+	"Update wheel cache"
+	prime_wheel_cache(bench='.')
+
 ## Setup
 @click.group()
 def setup():
@@ -303,3 +308,4 @@ bench.add_command(migrate_3to4)
 bench.add_command(shell)
 bench.add_command(_backup_all_sites)
 bench.add_command(_backup_site)
+bench.add_command(_prime_wheel_cache)
diff --git a/bench/templates/cached_requirements.txt b/bench/templates/cached_requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dbbb6b05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bench/templates/cached_requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+chardet
+cssmin
+dropbox
+gunicorn
+httplib2
+jinja2
+markdown2
+markupsafe
+mysql-python
+pygeoip
+python-dateutil
+python-memcached
+pytz==2013d
+six
+slugify
+termcolor
+werkzeug
+semantic_version
+rauth>=0.6.2
+requests==1.2.3
+celery
+redis
+selenium
+unidecode
+babel
+pdfkit
diff --git a/bench/utils.py b/bench/utils.py
index 7cd757da..edea7086 100644
--- a/bench/utils.py
+++ b/bench/utils.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def get_frappe(bench='.'):
 	return frappe
 
 def init(path, apps_path=None, no_procfile=False, no_backups=False,
-		no_auto_update=False, frappe_path=None):
+		no_auto_update=False, frappe_path=None, wheel_cache_dir=None):
 	from .app import get_app, install_apps_from_path
 	if os.path.exists(path):
 		print 'Directory {} already exists!'.format(path)
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ def init(path, apps_path=None, no_procfile=False, no_backups=False,
 
 	setup_env(bench=path)
 	put_config(default_config, bench=path)
+	if wheel_cache_dir:
+		update_config({"wheel_cache_dir":wheel_cache_dir}, bench=path)
+		prime_wheel_cache(bench=path)
 	if not frappe_path:
 		frappe_path = 'https://github.com/frappe/frappe.git'
 	get_app('frappe', frappe_path, bench=path)
@@ -60,6 +63,7 @@ def exec_cmd(cmd, cwd='.'):
 
 def setup_env(bench='.'):
 	exec_cmd('virtualenv {} -p {}'.format('env', sys.executable), cwd=bench)
+	exec_cmd('./env/bin/pip install wheel', cwd=bench)
 
 def setup_procfile(bench='.'):
 	with open(os.path.join(bench, 'Procfile'), 'w') as f:
@@ -244,3 +248,15 @@ def backup_site(site, bench='.'):
 def backup_all_sites(bench='.'):
 	for site in get_sites(bench=bench):
 		backup_site(site, bench=bench)
+
+def prime_wheel_cache(bench='.'):
+	conf = get_config(bench=bench)
+	wheel_cache_dir = conf.get('wheel_cache_dir')
+	if not wheel_cache_dir:
+		raise Exception("Wheel cache dir not configured")
+	requirements = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates', 'cached_requirements.txt')
+	cmd =  "{pip} wheel --find-links {wheelhouse} --wheel-dir {wheelhouse} -r {requirements}".format(
+				pip=os.path.join(bench, 'env', 'bin', 'pip'),
+				wheelhouse=wheel_cache_dir,
+				requirements=requirements)
+	exec_cmd(cmd)