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Hi I am making a Contribution Page that is a Membership Application.  I want to include a couple of Profiles.   CiviCRM doesn't allow Profiles to be included in a Contribution Page which contain one or more custom data fields of type: Organization.  

Most of my company's members are Organizations, and the membership application is being filled out on behalf of a prospective member Organization.

I'm curious why, if CiviCRM allows membership of an Organization, why CiviCRM disallows Profiles with Organization fields in the membership form?  I'm sure there is a reason for this, but what workflow logic is driving the CiviCRM team's decision making process here?

PS. I can get around this restriction by recoding my custom Data as type "Contact" but this seems awkward as my custom data is Organizationally specific: how many employees, description of product, when was your company founded, etc etc.