Tranferring a customer's existing Premium package (Editor) to their new Studio Site

Question:
I’m receiving an Error 500 message when helping my client move their Premium package and URL from their existing site to the new Studio Site I’ve built them. How can I get this transferred??

Product:
Wix Studio, Wix Editor

What are you trying to achieve:
My customer had an existing Wix site with a paid package and URL. I want to transfer that over to the new site I’ve built them (they have ownership of both sites at this time). I understand they’ll have to upgrade to Premium Plus from Premium Business and we’re ok with that.

What have you already tried:
I’ve cleared caches, tried different browsers, tried different computers. I’ve been on the phone with support already and have been exchanging chats/emails and updating help tickets for over 24 hours now trying to resolve this. I’ve gotten 0 answers. That said, Error 500 is standard code for an internal server issue.

Additional information:
Their old site was built with Wix Editor. The new site I’ve made for them is in Studio. When I go through the process to transfer everything, I’m given the option to view packages and THAT is when it all goes to pot. I get an error message. I’ve been told my case is being escalated, but I can’t get ANYTHING from Wix about when I can expect to see their site online finally outside of Wix telling us to buy ANOTHER package subscription and put my customers out that much more money, which is a frankly ridiculous recommendation when the issue is on Wix’s end to begin with. I don’t understand why Wix can’t facilitate the transfer on the back end and put an end to this issue.

As I know you can’t transfer Wix Editor premium to both Wix Studio or Editor X. You need to buy a new plan. If they bought old plan in past 14 days they can easily get a refund from Wix.

But you need a new premium plan for Wix Studio or Editor X. You can transfer Wix Editor plans to another Wix Editor site.

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Wix makes it sound like you can directly upgrade the package - and then the internal server had a critical error that prevented the process.

I found a solution. You have to detach the existing package from the old site, upgrade it, and then reattach it along with all URL’s to the new site. Baffled no one at Wix thought of that as a possible workaround and kept telling me to buy a second premium subscription. Utterly dumbfounded…