diff --git a/assets/openapi.json b/assets/openapi.json
index a06d0d782..ee3b87461 100644
Binary files a/assets/openapi.json and b/assets/openapi.json differ
diff --git a/assets/schemas.json b/assets/schemas.json
index f10afc4a4..289dec600 100644
Binary files a/assets/schemas.json and b/assets/schemas.json differ
diff --git a/extra/admin-api/Interop/Spacebar.Interop.Replication.UnixSocket/UnixSocketSpacebarReplication.cs b/extra/admin-api/Interop/Spacebar.Interop.Replication.UnixSocket/UnixSocketSpacebarReplication.cs
index a817335dd..2959c71b9 100644
--- a/extra/admin-api/Interop/Spacebar.Interop.Replication.UnixSocket/UnixSocketSpacebarReplication.cs
+++ b/extra/admin-api/Interop/Spacebar.Interop.Replication.UnixSocket/UnixSocketSpacebarReplication.cs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public class UnixSocketSpacebarReplication(UnixSocketConfiguration conf) : ISpac
 
 public class UnixSocketConfiguration {
     public UnixSocketConfiguration(IConfiguration config) {
-        config.GetRequiredSection("UnixSocketReplication").Bind(this);
+        config.GetRequiredSection("Spacebar").GetRequiredSection("UnixSocketReplication").Bind(this);
     }
 
     public string SocketDir { get; set; } = null!;
diff --git a/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.AdminApi/Program.cs b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.AdminApi/Program.cs
index b0f8f2090..072fba4b8 100644
--- a/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.AdminApi/Program.cs
+++ b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.AdminApi/Program.cs
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ builder.Services.AddScoped<SpacebarAspNetAuthenticationService>();
 // builder.Services.AddSingleton<RabbitMQConfiguration>();
 // builder.Services.AddSingleton<RabbitMQService>();
 // builder.Services.AddSingleton<ISpacebarReplication, RabbitMqSpacebarReplication>();
+builder.Services.AddSingleton<UnixSocketConfiguration>();
 builder.Services.AddSingleton<ISpacebarReplication, UnixSocketSpacebarReplication>();
 
 builder.Services.AddRequestTimeouts(x => {
diff --git a/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Controllers/GuildTemplatesController.cs b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Controllers/GuildTemplatesController.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6206a6c40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Controllers/GuildTemplatesController.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
+using Spacebar.Interop.Authentication.AspNetCore;
+using Spacebar.Models.Db.Contexts;
+using Spacebar.UApi.Models;
+using Spacebar.UApi.Services;
+
+namespace Spacebar.UApi.Controllers;
+
+[ApiController]
+public class GuildTemplatesController(ILogger<GuildMembersController> logger, SpacebarDbContext db, SpacebarAspNetAuthenticationService authService, TemplateImportService importService) : ControllerBase {
+    [HttpPost("/api/v10/guilds/templates/{templateId}")]
+    public async Task UseTemplate(string templateId, UseGuildTemplateRequest request) {
+        var user = await authService.GetCurrentUserAsync(Request);
+        await importService.CreateGuildFromTemplateById(templateId, request, user);
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Models/GuildTemplate.cs b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Models/GuildTemplate.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d53035692
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Models/GuildTemplate.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+using System.Text.Json.Nodes;
+using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
+
+namespace Spacebar.UApi.Models;
+
+// TODO: real schemas
+public class GuildTemplate {
+    [JsonPropertyName("code")]
+    public string Code { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("name")]
+    public string Name { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("description")]
+    public string Description { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("usage_count")]
+    public int UsageCount { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("creator_id")]
+    public string CreatorId { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("creator")]
+    public JsonObject Creator { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("created_at")]
+    public DateTimeOffset CreatedAt { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("updated_at")]
+    public DateTimeOffset UpdatedAt { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("source_guild_id")]
+    public string SourceGuildId { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("serialized_source_guild")]
+    public SerializedSourceGuild SerializedSourceGuild { get; set; }
+}
+
+public class SerializedSourceGuild { }
+
+public class GuildTemplateRole {
+    [JsonPropertyName("id")]
+    public int Id { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("name")]
+    public string Name { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("permissions")]
+    public string Permissions { get; set; }
+
+    // "color" ignored for now - is deprecated anyhow
+    [JsonPropertyName("colors")]
+    public RoleColors Colors { get; set; }
+    
+    [JsonPropertyName("hoist")]
+    public bool Hoist { get; set; }
+    
+    [JsonPropertyName("mentionable")]
+    public bool Mentionable { get; set; }
+    
+    // [JsonPropertyName("icon")]
+}
+
+public class RoleColors {
+    [JsonPropertyName("primary_color")]
+    public int PrimaryColor { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("secondary_color")]
+    public int? SecondaryColor { get; set; }
+
+    [JsonPropertyName("tertiary_color")]
+    public int TertiaryColor { get; set; }
+}
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diff --git a/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Models/UseGuildTemplateRequest.cs b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Models/UseGuildTemplateRequest.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..47a516a04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Models/UseGuildTemplateRequest.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
+
+namespace Spacebar.UApi.Models;
+
+public class UseGuildTemplateRequest {
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Data URI encoded image
+    /// </summary>
+    [JsonPropertyName("icon")]
+    public string? Icon { get; set; }
+    
+    [JsonPropertyName("name")]
+    public string Name { get; set; }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Program.cs b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Program.cs
index 4695b7abc..d6bb0d96e 100644
--- a/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Program.cs
+++ b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Program.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
 using Spacebar.Interop.Authentication;
 using Spacebar.Interop.Authentication.AspNetCore;
 using Spacebar.Models.Db.Contexts;
+using Spacebar.UApi.Services;
 
 var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
 if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("APPSETTINGS_PATH")))
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ builder.Services.AddDbContextPool<SpacebarDbContext>(options => {
 builder.Services.AddSingleton<SpacebarAuthenticationConfiguration>();
 builder.Services.AddScoped<SpacebarAuthenticationService>();
 builder.Services.AddScoped<SpacebarAspNetAuthenticationService>();
+builder.Services.AddScoped<TemplateImportService>();
 
 var app = builder.Build();
 
diff --git a/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Services/TemplateImportService.cs b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Services/TemplateImportService.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ae7b86a2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/admin-api/Spacebar.UApi/Services/TemplateImportService.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+using Spacebar.Models.Db.Contexts;
+using Spacebar.Models.Db.Models;
+using Spacebar.UApi.Models;
+
+namespace Spacebar.UApi.Services;
+
+public class TemplateImportService(SpacebarDbContext db) {
+    public async Task<string> CreateGuildFromTemplateById(string templateId, UseGuildTemplateRequest request, User user) {
+        return "";
+    }
+    
+    public async Task<>
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/schemas/uncategorised/GuildTemplateCreateSchema.ts b/src/schemas/uncategorised/GuildTemplateCreateSchema.ts
index 3ce9862f0..31035b784 100644
--- a/src/schemas/uncategorised/GuildTemplateCreateSchema.ts
+++ b/src/schemas/uncategorised/GuildTemplateCreateSchema.ts
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@
 
 export interface GuildTemplateCreateSchema {
     name: string;
-    avatar?: string | null;
+    icon?: string | null;
 }