Editing EZ-Link (section)

===System for e-Payments (SeP)===
A trial to test the system was held from 29 August to 28 October 2008. The trial, which involved some 5,000 commuters, generated 1.7 million transactions and has confirmed that the system is ready for revenue service. Developed in-house by the [[Land Transport Authority|LTA]], SeP is built on the Singapore Standard for Contactless ePurse Application ([[CEPAS]]) which allows any smart card that complies with the standard to be used with the system and in a wide variety of payment applications.

With SeP, commuters were able to use cards issued by any card issuer for transit purposes as long as the card complied with the [[CEPAS]] standard and included the transit application. Commuters could eventually use [[CEPAS]]-compliant cards for Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) payments in vehicles fitted with the new generation In-vehicle Unit (IU), Electronic Parking System (EPS) carparks and other electronic payment systems that supported the CEPAS standard.

During the free one-for-one exchange exercise, most of them replaced their cards during the direct card replacement exercise in 2009. Others seemed to replace new cards after the old cards were out of value and become collectors' value. The new EZ-Link cards also have a higher storage capacity of S$500.00 instead of the previous S$100.00 limit but most passengers keep to the $100 limit in case of loss of card.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.icars.sg/2008/726/new-features-with-cepas-compliant-ez-link-card/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090209060202/http://www.icars.sg/2008/726/new-features-with-cepas-compliant-ez-link-card/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = 9 February 2009 | title = New features with CEPAS-compliant EZ-Link card | publisher = [[Wayback Machine]] | year = 2008}}</ref>