What Excel Charting Add-ins Does Peltier Tech Offer?

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Peltier Tech offers Excel charting add-ins that extend Excel's native charting capabilities, providing custom chart types that are difficult or tedious to build manually, plus formatting tools for faster chart manipulation. The company has been developing these add-ins since 2008, beginning with its Waterfall Chart Utility. If you regularly build charts that Excel doesn't support out of the box—or spend too much time formatting charts by hand—these add-ins are aimed at you.

What the add-ins do

According to Peltier Tech's own description, its charting software serves two purposes:

  • Custom chart types that are hard or tedious to construct in Excel on your own
  • Formatting tools that make manipulating existing charts quick and easy

The goal is to extend what Excel can do natively, rather than replace it. You keep working in Excel; the add-ins fill in the gaps.

Where it started: the Waterfall Chart Utility

Peltier Tech's add-in development began with the Waterfall Chart Utility in 2008. Waterfall charts are a common example of a chart type that Excel historically made awkward to build—you often had to construct helper columns and stacked bars manually. The utility was built to remove that manual work.

What users report

The homepage includes client testimonials that point to two recurring benefits: speed and learning curve. One user (John H) reported it took about ten minutes to learn and saved significant time when altering data ranges across roughly 110 Excel charts. Another (Billy L) said a task that would have taken hours was done in minutes. Others mention specific chart types, including Marimekko charts, as a reason they value the add-in.

These are vendor-published testimonials, so treat them as directional rather than independent verification—but they consistently describe the same use case: repetitive or complex chart work that the add-ins automate.

Beyond software: consulting and training

Peltier Tech isn't only an add-in vendor. The same site lists:

  • Consulting — Excel projects for clients in manufacturing, finance, government, and the military, including VBA- and template-based work. One cited project reduced a monthly market report from two weeks of effort to one day.
  • Training — sessions on formulas, charting, Tables and Pivot Tables, Power Query, VBA, and dashboard reports, ranging from one- to two-hour seminars up to multi-day courses, delivered at conferences, meetups, company sites, or via video.

If your need is a one-off chart problem rather than a recurring workflow, training or consulting may fit better than buying an add-in.

How to decide

Your situation Reasonable starting point
You repeatedly build chart types Excel doesn't support well (e.g., waterfall, Marimekko) Look at the charting add-ins
You spend hours formatting or re-pointing many charts Look at the formatting tools in the add-ins
You need a custom Excel solution built for your team Consulting
You want your team to build better charts themselves Training

The site does not publish pricing on the homepage, so check the individual software, consulting, and training pages for current terms before committing.