'Custom product_cat data

I need to create product_cat with custom data (originalID), so I can identify categories (to add parent later).

I'm trien to create woocommerce categories like this:

$term = wp_insert_term( $name, 'product_cat', array() );    
$term = update_term_meta( $term->term_id, 'originalID', $internalID );

Categories are created successful but update_term_meta just returns false and I dont know why.

What am I missing?

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