Hi Jim,
1. The “flickering” is something that you would typically see if there are many transactions that haven’t been synched yet, or more likely when there is a Full Sync going.
The Full Sync should only happen once a day, in the middle of the night, so it shouldn’t be doing this. However, if there is something wrong, and it never completes a full sync, every changes only sync will be turned into a full sync until it finally completes a successful Full Sync.
If you go to his Audit Trail, and filter the Action by “SYN-“, you’ll get a list of all the completed syncs. Is it doing a SYN-C every 20 minutes? Do you see any SYN-F in there?
If you see some SYN-C in there, but also a mix of SYN-F, then check if is there someone using Method, going to the QuickBooks tab and clicking Full Sync whenever they want to sync something…this would cause it it to happen.
The other thing to check is when the flickering happens, go to the Method Integration Engine and see what it is doing. Is it doing OnDemand changes, Changes Only sync, or a Full Sync? (You can tell it’s doing a Full Sync because it goes 20 of 5000, 40 of 5000….etc.)
2. We are working on this one. I'll let you know as soon as I get an update.