diff --git a/bin/now-deploy b/bin/now-deploy
index 019a22a..09404e8 100755
--- a/bin/now-deploy
+++ b/bin/now-deploy
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ const apiUrl = argv.url || 'https://api.zeit.co';
 const isTTY = process.stdout.isTTY;
 const quiet = !isTTY;
 const config = cfg.read();
+const alwaysForwardNpm = config.forwardNpm;
 
 if (argv.h || argv.help) {
   help();
@@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ async function sync (token) {
     await now.create(path, {
       forceNew,
       forceSync,
-      forwardNpm,
+      forwardNpm: alwaysForwardNpm || forwardNpm,
       quiet
     });
   } catch (err) {
diff --git a/lib/index.js b/lib/index.js
index 071d93a..844954f 100644
--- a/lib/index.js
+++ b/lib/index.js
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ export default class Now extends EventEmitter {
 
     const nowProperties = pkg.now || {};
 
-    forwardNpm = forwardNpm || nowProperties['forward-npm'];
+    forwardNpm = forwardNpm || nowProperties['forwardNpm'];
 
     // Read .npmrc
     let npmrc = {};