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The program is planned to expand to other institutions, such as businesses and non-profits, in 2023.

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The Bay Pass provides free unlimited rides on Clipper-enabled transit systems to a subset of students at participating educational institutions. Īs part of efforts to integrate the fare systems of Bay Area transit agencies, the Clipper Bay Pass pilot program was announced in August 2022. In March 2022, Clipper announced that its older card readers were to be replaced soon, and that the new readers would not be backwards-compatible with TransLink cards.

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Integration with Google Pay and an Android app were released on May 19, 2021. On April 15, 2021, Clipper became available in Apple Wallet, and the Clipper mobile app for iOS was released. Existing paper tickets remain valid and add-fare machines inside the paid area of each station can be used to add fare to paper tickets if they have insufficient fare remaining to exit at the station in question. In December 2020, BART announced that it had converted all of its ticket machines to Clipper-only, discontinuing the sale of paper magstripe tickets that had been used since the system's inception in the 1970s.

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The upgrade was funded in part by $50 million from Regional Measure 3, a bridge toll increase approved in June 2018. The new system was specified to include a mobile app as well as integration with digital wallets. These factors led the MTC to start developing a next generation system planned to begin operation in 2021. The contract with Cubic for the existing Clipper system expired in 2019, and the system architecture dates from the 1990s. In 2014, the MTC started an initiative to design the next generation version of the Clipper system, nicknamed 'C2' or 'Clipper 2.0'. In Spanish it is known as 'tarjeta Clipper'. 'every transit route/line pass') as the official Chinese name for Clipper. In October 2010, the MTC selected 路路通 ( Pinyin: Lùlùtōng, the 'Go Everywhere Card', lit. On June 16, 2010, MTC changed the TransLink name to Clipper, an homage to the clipper ships of the 19th century, the fastest way to travel from the East Coast to San Francisco, and eliminated the contact interface which had been used to load funds onto the cards at TransLink machines. However, upon the launch of Clipper, Cubic Transportation Systems took over administration of distribution, customer service, and financial settlement of the program. TransLink was developed by Australian-based ERG Group and Motorola under the ERG-Motorola alliance in April 1999. However, it was fully operational for only five transit agencies by 2009.

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In 1998, MTC envisioned full availability of TransLink by 2001. Cost estimates have since increased in 2008, the projected 25-year capital and operations costs were estimated at $338 million. In its current form, first as TransLink and later as Clipper, implementation was expected to cost $30 million. Translink had a projected capital cost of $4 million when undertaken in 1993. However, because of technical problems, the program was abandoned two years later.

The card, which used magnetic stripe technology, was envisioned to one day include all Bay Area transit agencies. In 1993, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and County Connection launched a pilot program named Translink (not to be confused with other agencies with that name) that allowed the use of a single fare card between the two systems. The former TransLink card, issued prior to June 2010. Clipper is accepted by nearly all public transit services in the Bay Area, including Muni, BART, Caltrain, AC Transit, SamTrans, Golden Gate Transit, Golden Gate Ferry, San Francisco Bay Ferry, VTA, and many others. In addition to the traditional plastic card, Clipper is available as a virtual card in Google Pay and Apple Wallet. Like other transit smart cards such as the Oyster card, the Clipper card is a credit card-sized stored-value card capable of holding both cash value and transit passes for the participating transit agencies. First introduced as TransLink in 2002 by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) as a pilot program, it was rebranded in its current form on June 16, 2010. The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used for automated fare collection in the San Francisco Bay Area.